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Airport in Northamptonshire, England
RAF Harrington USAAF Station 179
Aerial photograph of Harrington airfield looking north, the main runway runs vertically, 22 April 1944. Note the many aircraft of the 801st Bombardment Group on the various hardstands, also one appearing to be taking off on the main runway.
Royal Air Force Harrington or more simply RAF Harrington is a former Royal Air Force station in England about 5.6 miles (9.0 km) west of Kettering in Northamptonshire south of the village of Harrington off the A14 road. During the early Cold War, it was a Thor missile site, designed to deliver atomic warheads to the Soviet Union. The nuclear missile site is now protected as a Grade II listed building as an example of Cold War architecture.
Royal Air Force Harrington or more simply RAFHarrington is a former Royal Air Force station in England about 5.6 miles (9.0 km) west of Kettering in Northamptonshire...
two squadrons were placed under the provisional 801st Bomb Group at RAFHarrington at the beginning of 1944 and the first "Carpetbagger" missions were...
this force with Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft operating from RAFHarrington (see Operation Carpetbagger). The OSS sought to be involved since, in...
military space shots. In October 2012 the former launch sites at RAFHarrington and RAF North Luffenham were granted listed status. During the early part...
September 1944, Operation Carpetbagger operated 1,860 sorties between RAFHarrington, England, and various points in occupied Europe. British Agents used...
front of the frame, above the fork. Examples include: RAFHarrington Aviation Museum, Harrington, Northampton, UK: WD Number C5152111 South African National...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Northamptonshire, RAFHarrington (Station 179) proved ideal for Carpetbagger operations. The advanced echelon of the squadrons moved into Harrington on 25 March...
Subsequently, the 492nd was transferred without personnel or equipment, to RAFHarrington on 5 August 1944 and assumed the personnel, equipment, and the Carpetbagger...
colleagues were dropped by parachute from a USAAF Liberator flown from RAFHarrington in Northamptonshire onto a landing field near Sussac on the outskirts...
Royal Air Force (RAF) in early January. In April the squadron moved to RAFHarrington, which was near RAF Tempsford, where the RAF was engaged in similar...
operator Sergeant R. Wilde. On 25 August 1944, team CECIL took off from RAFHarrington in a B-24J Liberator piloted by Maurice Jacobson, and at 1:54am on 26...
the RAF's Special Duties "moon" squadrons, 138 Squadron and 161 Squadron, from RAF Tempsford, with some operations starting from RAF Tangmere or RAF Harrington...
Army Air Field, New Mexico, 1 October 1943 RAF North Pickenham (AAF-143), England, 1 January 1944 RAFHarrington (AAF-179), England, 10 August 1944 Sioux...
squadron transferred to RAFHarrington on 1 August 1944, where it replaced the 788th Bombardment Squadron, which moved on paper to RAF Rackheath and was assigned...
Subsequently, due to its heavy losses the organization was transferred to RAFHarrington on 5 August for special operations duty less personnel and equipment...
training on special operations missions at RAF Cheddington, the squadron moved to the 801st's base at RAFHarrington and began to engage in Operation Carpetbagger...
The 858th Squadron returned to the 492d Group in early August, but at RAFHarrington, where it assumed the Operation Carpetbagger missions of the 406th Bombardment...
Farm (in North West Bedfordshire) 3 Under Development ? ? Harrington Former RAFHarrington Airfield 7 Under Development 14 megawatts 126 meters Hirddywel...
Storage Units (ASU)s. List of Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air...
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