RAF Sutton Bridge

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE UNAWARE OF RAF SUTTON BRIDGE'S EXISTENCE OR LOCATION, IT WAS IN THE AREA WHERE THE POWER STATION IS NOW SITUATED.

Opened: 1920s as training camp, full airfield in 1936

Closed: Airfield inactive from 1946, closed 1958

Squadrons based here:

6 OTU (Operational Training Unit) :: 9 Mar 1940
renamed
56 OTU :: 1 Nov 1940 - 27 Mar 1942

254 Sqn :: 9 Dec 1939 - 28 Jan 1940

264 Sqn :: 30 Oct 1939 - 7 Dec 1939

266 Sqn :: 30 Oct 1939 - 1 Mar 1940

Central Gunnery School :: 1942 -

7 FTS (Service Flying Training School ) :: 1944 - 1946

6 OTU was formed from 11 Group Pool.

Find out more about RAF Sutton Bridge in published books :: click here.

264 Sqn formed here but was not equipped with Defiant until it moved on to Martlesham Heath.

A highly recommended book about RAF Sutton Bridge 

RAF Holbeach (Holbeach Range)
'Defend and strike'

Opened: 1928

2006: still an active RAF Station.

RAF Holbeach is known as the Wash Bombing Range and is located around 8 miles North-North-East of Holbeach village, approximately equidistant from Boston and King's Lynn.

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