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| RAF Great Orton |
Dates: 1943 - 1952 County: Cumbria Location: 1 mile S of Kirkbampton Usage 1943-1945: Satellite for 6 OTU Wellingtons from Silloth. 1943-1944: 55 OTU Hurricanes and Master. Became Tactical Excercise Unit.Also Typhoon Conversion Sqn formed. 1943 : 1674 HCU Wellingtons. 1944-1945: Warwicks of 281 and 282 ASR Sqns here. Airfield on Care and Maintenance when 6 OTU disbanded and postwar used for bomb storage by 249 MU until closure.
Forces Reunited Forum Posts involving RAF Great Orton
" My dad, Pearson Watson Smith (now deceased) has several ’alt backers up’ courses listed on his WW2 RAF service record. Does anyone know what these were? Enquiries at Innsworth and the RAF Museum have drawn a blank. I think he was an armourer so I’m hoping that ..."
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"Does anyone have any information on Thomas Hampson who was posted to RAF Great Orton in 1954? "
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RAF Great Orton
1943 - 1952
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