Little Staughton Airfield - Cambridgeshire, UK
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Dragontree
N 52° 13.927 W 000° 20.887
30U E 681093 N 5790169
Little Staughton Airfield is an interesting place with old buildings hidden in the woods, a Grade II Listed Control Tower and reminders of the war all around.
Waymark Code: WMB1VT
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/24/2011
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Approaching from the Bushmead, southern side we were most surprised to find ourselves amongst the wartime buildings. A large concrete reservoir could be seen in the wood with other structures and then further north airfield buildings became more prominent.
Wikipedia describes the Squadron associated with Little Staughton:
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'No. 582 Squadron RAF was a bomber pathfinder squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
The squadron was formed with Avro Lancasters on 1 April 1944 at RAF Little Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England, from 'C' Flight of 7 Squadron and 'C' Flight 156 Squadron. It was part of No. 8 Group RAF, also referred to as the Pathfinder Force, and began operation nine days later with a night raid on Lille on the 9/10 April 1944. The squadron last finished operational raid against enemy forces was a raid on gun batteries on the island of Wangerooge on the 25th April 1945. The squadron spent the remainder of the war dropping food to the Dutch, during Operation Manna, and the repatriation of Prisoners of War, Operation Exodus. It was disbanded at RAF Little Staughton on 10 September 1945.
During a raid on 23 February 1945, Captain Edwin Swales, a South African, won a posthumous Victoria Cross over Pforzheim.'