RAF Fighter Command * No. 11 Group RAF RAF Second Tactical Air Force[1]
Site history
Built
1940 (1940)/41
In use
November 1941-1946 (1946)
Battles/wars
European theatre of World War II
Airfield information
Elevation
9 metres (30 ft)[1] AMSL
Runways
Direction
Length and surface
04/22
Tarmac/Asphalt
10/28
Tarmac/Asphalt
16/34
Tarmac/Asphalt
Royal Air Force Bradwell Bay or more simply RAF Bradwell Bay is a former Royal Air Force station located 9.5 miles (15.3 km) east of Maldon, Essex, England and 3.1 miles (5 km) south west of West Mersea, Essex.
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the size of Chelmsford, Colchester and Southend. Bradwell was built on the edge of RAFBradwellBay, a former World War II airfield, 1.5 miles (2.4 km)...
by the RAF and USAAF during the Second World War, and also attracted many crash-landing aircraft bound to or from the nearby RAFBradwellBay airfield...
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Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command, but they could not prevent widespread destruction of industrial cities. Only once did the RAF lose as many as nine...
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on the coast of Bradwell Creek, a channel next to the Blackwater. Nearby, there is the former Royal Air Force base RAFBradwellBay, owing to the flat...
by the Royal Air Force to serve as an officers' mess for the nearby RAFBradwellBay. Driberg returned to the lodge after the war and brought his new wife...
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