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Royal Air
Force Harrowbeer or more
simply RAF
Harrowbeer is a
former Royal Air
Force station situated next to
Yelverton in the
parish of
Buckland Monachorum...
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beginning of the
Second World War, an
airfield (RAF
Harrowbeer) was
constructed at
adjacent Harrowbeer as a
fighter station for the air
defence of Devonport...
- 1945 - HQ at RAF
Exeter 10
January 1945 to 15
February 1945 - HQ at RAF
Harrowbeer Disbanded between 1945 and 1953. 1
March 1953 to 18
November 1954 - HQ...
- RAF
Gatwick RAF
Gransden Lodge RAF
Gravesend RAF
Hartford Bridge RAF
Harrowbeer RAF
Halton RAF
Hawkinge RAF
Headcorn RAF High Post RAF
Holmsley South...
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previously little-needed
letters 'I', 'J', 'Q', 'U', 'V', 'Z' or 'X'.
Harrowbeer thus
became 'QB'. Some pre-war
beacons had
initially used a
single letter...
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Station Heritage Centre in May 2012.
Other memorial locations include Harrowbeer, Hatfield, Lanark, Leavesden, Matlaske, Okehampton, Podington, Swannington...
- 1994 Sold,
buildings demolished and site
redeveloped for housing. RAF
Harrowbeer QB
England Devon 1941 1950 RAF
Harwell HW
England Oxfordshire 1937 1945...
- Navy
Hospital at Maristow, the
American Army Camp at
Bickham and RAF
Harrowbeer. The
village has its own
small War
Memorial dedicated to the men of Milton...
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Seven pilots of 312
Squadron at RAF
Harrowbeer in Devon, just
after President Edvard Beneš has
decorated them. Five wear the
Czechoslovak War
Cross 1939–1945...
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commanded No. 276 Squadron,
another ASR unit,
which operated Walruses from
Harrowbeer in Devon. It also used
Spitfires and the two-seater
Boulton Paul Defiant...
