Royal Air Force[2] United States Army Air Forces (1942-45)
Controlled by
RAF Fighter Command (1941–1942) * No. 9 Group RAF Eighth Air Force (1942–1944) Ninth Air Force (1944–1945) RAF Flying Training Command (1945–1946)[2]
Site history
Built
1941 (1941)
In use
September 1941 – April 1946
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
61 metres (200 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
05/23
1,825 metres (5,988 ft) Asphalt
18/36
1,825 metres (5,988 ft) Asphalt
10/28
1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Asphalt
Royal Air Force Atcham, or more simply RAF Atcham, is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles (8 km) east of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, on the north eastern boundary of Attingham Park.
Initially built for RAF Fighter Command, during the Second World War its primary use was by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force. It was mainly the home of the 495th Fighter Training Group, where pilots were trained to fly Republic P-47 Thunderbolts although a few also were trained to fly twin-engined Lockheed P-38 Lightnings for both Eighth and Ninth Air Force units.[3] Atcham continued to see use as a training base until it was returned to the RAF in March 1945.[4]
^ abFalconer 2012, p. 37.
^ ab"RAF Atcham". Control Towers. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^Freeman 2001, p. 22.
^Cite error: The named reference IWM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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