Editors Note: This article merely skims the subject of the 25th Bomb Group (RCN) at Watton during its tenure here in WW2. If you have a serious interest in the…
A brief history of RAF Watton 1939 to 1945
A brief history of RAF Watton 1939 to 1945 The station was opened on the 4th. January 1939 under the command of Group Captain F.J. Vincent as a station of…
A brief history of Watton’s Satellite – RAF Bodney
Bodney was a grass-covered airfield without the usual concrete runways and opened in early 1940 as a 2 Group satellite station for nearby Watton. Several Watton-based squadrons were dispersed here…
A brief history of 3rd Strategic Air Depot
3RD STRATEGIC AIR DEPOT A Brief History of the U.S. Unit at R.A.F. Watton 1943-45 The 3rd Strategic Air Depot (S.A.D.) was one of four S.A.D’s set up under the…
RAF Watton history post 1945 in brief
The timeline section of this website features “Peter Long’s Brief History of Watton” which is shown as a series of yearly Textual ‘snapshots’. These ‘snapshots’ are taken from my book In Support…