Former Royal Air Force munitions storage location in Staffordshire, England
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Royal Air Force Fauld is a former Royal Air Force underground munitions storage depot located 2 miles (3.2 km) south west of Tutbury, Staffordshire and 10.4 miles (16.7 km) north east of Rugeley, Staffordshire, England.
The site was controlled by No. 21 Maintenance Unit RAF which stored munitions underground.
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at nearby RAFFauld, from October 1945 until January 1947. During the post Second World War period when it was still under RAF Control, RAF Tatenhill...
In the summer of 1936 the RAF acquired a quarry at Chilmark in Wiltshire for its southern depot and an alabaster mine at Fauld in Staffordshire for its...
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The Hanbury Crater in Staffordshire, England, which was the site of the RAFFauld explosion. The Zone Rouge, former First World War battlefield located...
Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California. Nov 27, 1944: RAFFauld Explosion. Explosion of between 3500 and 4000 tonnes of ordnance in an...
these weapons. More than 100 people survive with injuries. 27 November – RAFFauld explosion: between 3,450 and 3,930 tons (3,500 and 4,000 tonnes) of ordnance...
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carried by train exploded, causing extensive damage to town and killing 1. RAFFauld explosion, UK underground munitions storage depot in 1944, one of the...
German forces evacuate from the West Estonian Archipelago. November 27 RAFFauld explosion: Between 3,450 and 3,930 tons (3,500 and 4,000 tonnes) of ordnance...
be the last RAF flying unit. During 1944 No. 21 Maintenance Unit arrived after the disastrous explosion at their nearby station of RAFFauld. The airfield...
HMS Dasher (D37) – 379 sailors killed in accidental explosion in 1943 RAFFauld explosion – 1944 munitions explosion causing 70+ deaths, and an explosive...
ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands. 1944 – World War II: RAFFauld explosion: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire...
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had royal blue livery. Additional rolling stock was acquired from the RAFFauld railway and the internal railway of the LNWR Wolverton works. In 1998...
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later terminus. When restoration began a set of six "bomb" wagons from RAFFauld were purchased, to help with track laying, though only five were used...
railway purchased a set of "bomb" wagons which had previously been used at RAFFauld. They provided limited passenger accommodation before the arrival of the...
. The school was damaged by the RAFFauld explosion of 1944 when 4,000 tons of stored bombs exploded at nearby Fauld. The school was declared unsafe in...