Royal Air Force Swingate Down or more simply RAF Swingate Down is a former Royal Air Force Chain Home Low radar station operational during the Second World...
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List of former Royal Air Force stations (redirect from List of former RAF stations)
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
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1 Squadron RAF Regiment No. II Squadron RAF Regiment No. 15 Squadron RAF Regiment No. 34 Squadron RAF Regiment (C-UAS) No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment No...
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Initially using aircraft borrowed from 24 Squadron, 27 Squadron moved to Swingate Down outside Dover in late November 1915, and in early February 1916, received...
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the stations in the network, Bawdsey, Gt. Bromley, High St, Dunkirk and Swingate (Dover) were left set to their maximum range settings and in the altitude...
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Swingate Down: 1916 Harrietsham: 1916–1918 Bekesbourne: 1918–1919 RAF Waddington: 1937–1940 RAF Lindholme: 1940–1941 RAF Swinderby: 1941–1942 RAF Skellingthorpe:...
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over the North Sea until the end of the war. In March 1919 it moved to Swingate Down near Dover, and was disbanded on 9 February 1920. In early 1940 a detachment...
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dropping hydrogen bombs in Operation Grapple. The squadron was formed at Swingate Down, near Dover, Kent, England in April 1916. In November 1917, the squadron...
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Wold Stenigot Stoke Holy Cross Swingate Trelanvean Treleaver Trerew Trewan Sands Trimingham Truleigh Hill Ventnor RAF Wartling West Beckham West Myne...
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since 1066. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-9717-4. Cox 1974, p. 149. "Swingate Chain Home Station". Undergroundkent.co.uk. Archived from the original...
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