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| RAF Wratting Common RAF West Wickham  | |||||||||||
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| Near West Wickham, Cambridgeshire in England | |||||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||||
| Code | WW[1] | ||||||||||
| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force | ||||||||||
| Controlled by | RAF Bomber Command * No. 3 Group RAF * No. 7 (T) Group RAF | ||||||||||
| Location | |||||||||||
  RAF Wratting Common Shown within Cambridgeshire  RAF Wratting Common RAF Wratting Common (the United Kingdom) | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°07′30″N 000°24′05″E / 52.12500°N 0.40139°E | ||||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||||
| Built | 1942/43 | ||||||||||
| In use | May 1943 - April 1946 | ||||||||||
| Battles/wars | European theatre of World War II | ||||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||||
| Elevation | 119 metres (390 ft)[1] AMSL | ||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Wratting Common or more simply RAF Wratting Common is a former Royal Air Force station in Suffolk, north of Haverhill and southeast of Cambridge, England.
Units
[edit]The following units were here at some point:[2]
- No. 24 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section[3]
- No. 90 Squadron RAF between May and October 1943 with the Short Stirling III and the Avro Lancasters I and III[1]
- No. 195 Squadron RAF between November 1944 and August 1945 with the Lancasters I and III[1]
- No. 116 Storage Sub Site of No. 273 Maintenance Unit RAF between July 1946 and September 1947[4]
- No. 2 Section of No. 1552 Radio Aids Training Flight between March and July 1946[5]
- No. 1651 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF between November 1943 and November 1944[6]
References
[edit]- Citations
- 1 2 3 4 Falconer 2012, p. 219.
- ↑ "Wratting Common (West Wickham)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ↑ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 164.
- ↑ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 184.
- ↑ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 127.
- ↑ Sturtivant & Hamlin 2007, p. 97.
- Bibliography
- Falconer, J. (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5.
- Sturtivant, R.; Hamlin, J. (2007). Royal Air Force flying training and support units since 1912. UK: Air-Britain (Historians). ISBN 978-0851-3036-59.