North Witham airfield, 19 March 1944. Note the cluster of hangars in the technical site, to the northwest of the airfield, and the dispersed T-2 hangar, on the southeast side of the airfield.
European Theatre of World War II Air Offensive, Europe July 1942 - May 1945
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1st Tactical Air Depot IX Troop Carrier Pathfinder Group (Provisional)
Royal Air Force North Witham or more simply RAF North Witham is a former Royal Air Force station located in Twyford Wood, off the A1 between Stamford and Grantham, Lincolnshire, England about 104 miles (167 km) north-northwest of London.
The site opened in 1943 during the Second World War and used both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces, initially as transport airfield then for miscellaneous uses, before closing in 1956. Today the remains of the airfield are mostly woodland maintained by the Forestry Commission with the old concrete runways still accessible.
Royal Air Force NorthWitham or more simply RAFNorthWitham is a former Royal Air Force station located in Twyford Wood, off the A1 between Stamford and...
the church porch, and for the presence of nearby RAFNorthWitham. The origin of the name "NorthWitham" is uncertain, though the village appears in the...
war, much of the land beyond this was developed from 1943 onwards as RAFNorthWitham. This was used operationally by the United States USAAF. At the end...
company is known as a wheat pool. The head office is based on the former RAFNorthWitham and prominent customers include some of the largest and well known...
way on D-Day in the night drop before the invasion. They left from RAFNorthWitham, having trained there with the 82nd Airborne Division. These night...
hanging on the church steeple, was in F Company. Additionally, some of the RAF Cottesmore aircraft used for the Normandy drop were C-53 Skytroopers. According...
were east and south of Sainte-Mère-Église and lettered A, C and D from north to south. (Drop Zone B had belonged to the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment...
at RAF Belton Park, the Regiment's first depot, RAF Folkingham and RAFNorthWitham. Grantham was first after London to recruit and train women police...
(Strategic Missile) Squadron RAF. With the reactivation of the site in late 1958, BRM was relocated to RAFNorthWitham. On the closure of the Thor site...
Many crashed and equipment and personnel were lost. They left from RAFNorthWitham having trained there with the 82nd Airborne Division. The 101st Airborne...
This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They...
Joel E. Crouch, commandant (RAFNorthWitham) 1st Pathfinder Group (Provisional) Brig. Gen. Julian M. Chappell at RAF Exeter 439th Troop Carrier Group: Lt...
of 98 MU: Fordoun "RAF High Ercall". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 1 June 2012. "RAF South Witham". RAF Lincolnshire.info...
self-published (2020, 2nd Ed 2021) Danger Area - The Complete History of RAF South Witham 100 Maintenance Unit, Martyn Chorlton, Old Forge Publishing (2003)...
side of the River Witham. The houses were intended for servicemen at RAF Cottesmore, but were taken instead by personnel at RAFNorth Luffenham. The village...
of Twyford Wood, which was the site of a Second World War airfield RAFNorthWitham, and still retains military artefacts, including open runways and a...
Edge is bounded by a narrow finger of Fenland, which follows the River Witham into Lincoln. To the south, the Edge merges into the more undulating Kesteven...
years. North Kesteven borders West Lindsey (along the Foss Dyke and the River Witham) and the city of Lincoln to the north, East Lindsey to the north-east...
more simply RAF Swinderby is a former Royal Air Force station airfield opened in 1940, one of the last of the stations completed under the RAF's expansion...
antennae-pommelled sword from the River Witham was imported from Europe. A wooden trackway from this era has been found at Brigg in north Lincolnshire, nearby to where...
then crosses the River Witham, the north side of Hambleton Hill, and the East Coast Main Line at Shire House to the west. North are the Barkston South...
near to the source of the River Witham then enters Rutland and Thistleton. It passes alarmingly close to the former RAF Cottesmore and goes through Greetham...
ISBN 978-1-147-70286-6 Chorlton, Martyn; Danger Area: The Complete History of RAF South Witham, 100 MU Old Forge Publishing (2003) ISBN 0-9544507-2-8 Castle Bytham...
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