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RAF Alconbury

Units
The host unit at RAF Alconbury is the 423d Air Base Group (ABG 423), which provides hosting services for the unit, RAF Alconbury and RAF Molesworth and Upwood. ABG 423 also provides services to the 426th Squadron at the air base of Sola Air Station, Stavanger, Norway.
The group consists of six groups of squadronsecurity civil engineer, air base, medical support units and servicesnd tenant. Manage daily activities in the community and maintains all facilities, services and housing. Its primary mission is to support the Center of the U.S. European Command Conjoint Analysis, Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (EMDR) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at RAF Molesworth. The group also supports the USAF Clinical RAF Upwood, which serves the immediate medical needs of active duty personnel, their families and military retirees living in the area.
The command section 423 ABG and tidy room in Alconbury are like many of the support units and recreational facilities for the Tri-Base Area.
RAF Alconbury is also home to the 501st Combat Support Wing (501 CSW). The CSW 501 is the command and control authority over USAFE geographically separated units in the United Kingdom. United said the 501 CSW groups United air base are based on resources, sustained, trained and equipped to meet command standards to provide mission support that enables U.S. and NATO war fighters to conduct full spectrum operations during expeditionary deployments flight, movement theater munitions, command global communications and control to forward deployed locations, support for joint intelligence operations and theater / combined training.
RAF Alconbury is 0.308 square miles (0798 km) in the area.
Historical overview
RAF Alconbury is named after the nearby village of Alconbury.
He was formerly Air Force Station, Abbots Ripton Real 1938-9 September 1942 while in the control of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command.
The United States Army Force Air (USAF) ordered the installation Alconbury Airfield, USAAF Station # 102 of September 9, 1942-July 1945, then simply USAAF Station # 102, until November 26, 1945.
USAAF Station # 547 Abbots Ripton, headquarters of the Second Strategic Air Depot is now part of present-day active in the Royal Air Force Alconbury, part of the former Alconbury Airfield be Alconbury WWII aerodrome.
The U.S. Air Force initially called the facility Alconbury RAF Station, 24 August 1951-18 diciembre 1955.
During the Second World War, was controlled by the USAAF Eighth Air Force, on 23 February 1944 to August 7 1945, the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe (USSAFE), thereafter the United States Air Forces in Europe
Historical sites base interest are:
An F-5E aircraft replica is on display outside the front door
A-10 plane is on display near the base's parade field
The original was the Second World War is still the control tower standing in the section of old runway
A building of the Second World War was the farm field east of the perimeter of the base currency, along with several buildings during the war in the former technical site (Site # 5) on the west side of the old airport.
Several World War II T-2 hangars are still in use in the section of runway.
Several World War II bomber hardstands (Both the pan and the circular type) remain in the section of runway.
Major units assigned
United States Army Air Forces
Bombardment Group 93d, September 7, 1942 - December 5, 1942
92D Bombardment Group, 6 January to September 15, 1943
95th Bombardment Group, April 15 to June 15, 1943
Group 482d bombing, August 20, 1943 to May 21, 1945
Eight hundred and first Bombardment Group (Provisional), Jan - May 1, 1944
94th bombardment wing, 12 to June 18, 1945
Bombing 2d Wing, June 12 to August 26, 1945
First bombing Ala, June 26 to August 26, 1945
First Air Division, September 20 to October 31, 1945
406th Squadron Bomber, November 11, 1943 to February 7, 1944
857th Bombardment Squadron, June 11 to August 6, 1945
652d Bombardment Squadron, Jul 13 hasta October 25, 1945
36th Bombardment Squadron
Attached to 328th Service Group, assigned to the RAF Watton, operated from Alconbury, Feb 7 to 28 March 1944
Assigned to: 1st Division Bombing, February 28 to October 15, 1945
United States Air Force
7560th Air Base Squadron, November 7, 1954 to March 25, 1955
Redesignated: Group 7560th Air Base, March 25, 1955 to August 25, 1959
86th Bombardment Squadron, 15 September 1955 to 5 August 1959
42d Troop Carrier Squadron, May 31 to December 8, 1957
53rd Weather reconnaissance squadron, April 25 to August 9, 1959
Tenth Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, August 25, 1959 to August 20 1987
Redesignated: tenth Tactical Fighter Wing, August 10, 1987-March 31, 1993
Redesignated: Air Base Wing tenth, March 31, 1993 to October 1, 1994
527th Tactical Combat Training Aggressor Squadron, 1 April 1976 hasta July 14, 1988
Reconnaissance Wing 17, October 1, 1982 June 30, 1991 hasta
Division Assigned to Strategic Air Command's Eighth Air Force Air seventh
39th Special Operations Wing, December 1, 1992 a January 1, 1993
352d Special Operations Group, 1 in 1993 to February 17, 1995
710th Air Base Wing, 1 October 1994 till July 12, 1995
423d Air Base Squadron, July 12, 1995 to July 1, 2005 (Based on RAF Molesworth)
Redesignated: 423d Air Base Group, July 1, 2005 - Present
The 501st Combat Support Wing, May 01 2007resent
Reference
Operational History
Beginning
In 1937, the Royal Air Force Bomber Command was making plans for the dispersion aircraft in the event of air strikes against its stations. Despite efforts to keep new sites airfields and measures to conceal secret, there was no doubt that potential enemy knew exactly where they were and would have little trouble finding from the air.
satellite bases were considered a response to this threat - An airstrip at a reasonable distance away by road from the airfield parents for a plane could be diverted if the place of residence was bombed or that can be attacked. These bases satellite would be equipped with a level of support to enable operations to be carried out if the main air base were taken out combat.
In the spring of 1938, the Air Ministry purchased about 150 acres (0.6 km2) of open grasslands in Alconbury Hill, Huntingdonshire, expressly for use as an air base satellite. The exact location was adjacent to the ancient Roman road Ermine Street, northwest of La Villita Stukeley, near the junction where he became theA1 Ermine Street instead of the A14.
After a minimal amount of construction, Alconbury Royal Air Force was established in May 1938 When No. 63 Squadron, the first to be equipped with the Fairey Battle light bomber, flew from its base station, RAF Upwood five miles (8 km) away. This was a training exercise two days and other squadrons were to follow in the next 15 months.
During this period, the Royal Air Force Alconbury was in a few wooden huts, but plans were made to provide refueling and rearming facilities.
Bomber Command RAF use: 1939-1941
In September 1939, RAF Upwood squads were given operational training and became a satellite of the Alconbury Royal Air Force Wyton under Group No. 2, No. 12 Squadron, 40 and 139. These squads were deployed often Alconbury, No. 139, being the first to be actually stationed in the country, although only nine days.
Squadrons 15 and 40 converted Battles Bristol Blenheim bombers, but was not involved in the bombings with the new type until the Blitzkrieg German broke out in May 1940.
No.15 Squadron was installed on April 14, 1940, when requisitioned additional accommodation available. It flew its first foray the war on May 10 against a German occupied airfield near Rotterdam. All planes returned eight, some with bullet damage. A subsequent operation, an attempt to break the Albert Canal at Maastricht, was disastrous as the half-plane force issued 12 did not return.
The remains of No. 15 then moved back the Alconbury Royal Air Force Wyton and returned to use the satellite for both teams Wyton. In the autumn of 1940 these units were decimated bombers scheduled to become Vickers Wellington and the November 1, 1940, the Royal Air Force Alconbury and Wyton came under the control of the Group N º 3.
In late 1940 to 1941, an expansion of the Royal Air Force Alconbury begun to upgrade their facilities from a satellite airfield to a fully functioning one. A concrete main runway was built from 1900 to 1918 bear 1375 yards (1,257 m) long, auxiliary units 06-24 being 1,240 yards (1,130 m) and 12 to 30 in 1,110 yards (1,010 m), 50 meters (46 m) wide. The track around the perimeter 30 pan type hardstandings served, mostly in the opening of five long access tracks in the northern part of the airfield. The building was 12-inches (300 mm) concrete with a coating of asphalt.
The technical site on the north-west expanded into a single T2 hangar was also erected. A second T2 was located along asserted to the east of the threshold of runway 18. Staff accommodation is provided in the south west side of the A14, around Alconbury House that had been seized earlier. This Update Alconbury Royal Air Force was made by W & C French Ltd.
The building attracted the attention of the Luftwaffe in the airfield of RAF Alconbury was attacked by German bombers on 16 September 1940, but no serious damage was done.
While this work was in progress, No. 40 Squadron brought its Wellingtons to Alconbury in February 1941 and operated until the autumn night raids. The targets were attacked industrial targets in Germany but also in the German Navy ports on the Atlantic coast of France. A notable transaction in which he participated was the major attack on 24 July flight to Brest, where some of the German battleship underwent major repairs in preparation for a new campaign against British shipping.
This was the time of the bombing, when many parts of Britain were being subjected to an almost every night of heavy bombing. In two nights, 8 March and 11 June, the Royal Air Force Alconbury was bombed again and both times a Wellington was damaged on the ground.
In October 1941 two flights with 16 Wellingtons were sent to operate from Malta, allegedly in a landslide emergency. The rest of the No. 40 soldiered on but never had more than eight planes of force. In February 1942 was clear that the main section of the No. 40 would not be returning Mediterranean area and the February 14, 1942 the aircraft remains in Alconbury Royal Air Force formed in the No. 156 Squadron RAF.
Alconbury operations with No. 3 Group continued until August 1942 when 156 was chosen to become one of the special units of the Pathfinder Force, RAF Warboys passing early that month. This was the end of the partnership with the RAF Bomber Command Alconbury.
A total of 67 bombers were lost in the operations of Bomber Command flew from RAF Alconbury, eight were Blenheims and Wellingtons 59.
USAAF use: 19421945
RAF Alconbury, March 12, 1943
In May 1942, was assigned to RAF Alconbury States Eighth U.S. Air Force, when a number of stations in East Anglia were handed over to the Americans after their entry into the war. He was appointed by the USAF as Station 102 (AL). The first USAAF unit to be activated at Alconbury was the 357th Air Service Squadron on 18 August 1942. The first base commander was Colonel Edward J. Timberlake, taking office on Dec. 6.
Also in 1942, to bring the station to the rules of the Class A airfield, runways were extended to 2,000 yards (Main) and alteration of 1,400 yards (Secondary), with 26 additional hardstands with roads. Two T-2 type hangars, located on the west side and one in the north of the field main flights are planned major maintenance work. A hangar was near the site of art, a collection of prefabricated buildings for specialized purposes.
The commercial buildings and barracks were released into nearby farmland southeast of the airfield on the other side of the A14. The pump and stores ammunition were located on the opposite side of the airfield for the staff living quarters. This was usual for security reasons.
In addition, two facilities underground storage of gasoline, with a total capacity of 216,000 gallons were located in areas adjacent to the perimeter road, but at some distance from the area storage of explosives.
In a skillet hardstand in the form on the north side of the airfield, a shot-ass on earth was built. This was about 25 feet (7.6 m) high.
The total land area occupied by the Royal Air Force Alconbury in 1942 was about 500 acres (2 km), with 100 acres (0.4 km2) taken up by the concrete and buildings.
93d Bombardment Group (Heavy)
93d pump Consolidated Group B-24D-1-CO Liberator, AAF Serial No. 41-23711, in England, Alconbury Royal Air Force in 1942. This aircraft was lost in Austria October 1, 1943. MACR 3301
The first American Eighth Air Force unit to take up residence at RAF Alconbury was the group 93d Bombardment, known as the Circus "Ride" AAF Fort Myers (Page Field), Florida on September 7, 1942. He was assigned to the 20th Combat Bombardment of wing at RAF Horsham St Faith near Norwich. The group flew B-24 Liberator aircraft with a tail code of the "Circle B". Its operating units were:
328th Bomb Squadron (GO)
329th Bomb Squadron (RE)
330th Bomb Squadron (AG)
409th Bomb Squadron (YM)
The 93d was the first Liberator equipped terrorist group to get to the Eighth Air Force. The group started with the B-24 on 9 October 1942 by attacking steel and engineering works in Lille, France. Until December, the group operated primarily against submarine pens along the French coast along the Bay of Biscay.
While the 93d was at RAF Alconbury, His Majesty, King George VI made his first visit to a base of the Eighth Air Force on November 13, 1942. During the visit, he showed the B-24 "Ann Teggie" then consider that the plane 93d leader.
On December 6, 1942, most of the group was transferred to Twelfth Air Force in North Africa support Operation Torch landings. The balance of the 93d BG was transferred to the Royal Air Force Hardwick (Station 104), near Bungay, Suffolk, where B-24 groups were to concentrate.
92D Bombardment Group (Heavy)
Senior pilots pose in front of a bomb 325th Squadron Boeing B-17F-105-BO, serial number 42-30455 AAF after of a successful mission to Hlser Berg Germany in late June 1943. Equipped with radar, the aircraft flew several missions like the aircraft of the group. Unfortunately, the aircraft sank in the North Sea November 16, 1943 while returning from Norway after having been transferred to the 390th BS BG/569th at RAF Framlingham in Suffolk. 10 crew MIA. MACR 1400
Unknown 92D Bomb Group B-17F in Alconbury Airfield, Summer 1943. In the background is a familiar sight to anyone who has served in Alconbury, the people Little Stukeley
Replacing the 93d BG, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress equipped 92D Bombardment Group transferred to RAF Alconbury in Bovingdon on 11 January 1943.
The 92D Bomb Group was known as "favorites" Few Fame, and was assigned to Combat fourth wing at RAF Thurleigh. The tail code of the group was a "triangle B ". Its operating units were:
325th Bomb Squadron (NV)
326th Bomb Squadron (JW)
327th Bomb Squadron (UX)
407th Bomb Squadron (PY)
Initially, after two combat missions in September 1942, 92D was withdrawn from combat and their B-17F bombers exchanged by B-17E bombers greater holding the 97th Bomb Group. Then served as an operational training unit providing equipment to fight the battle groups in the United Kingdom. However, in early 1943, the diversion to Operation Torch heavy bomber groups had originally planned for the Eighth Air Force took the decision to return the 92nd in combat operations. The 92D Bomb Group flying missions resumed on 01 May 1943, despite its 326th Bomb Squadron was left in Bovingdon to continue the mission UTO, the 325th squadron was used to provide a picture for the formation of H2S radar, and acquired a mission 327th Squadron special.
From Alconbury, the 92D dedicated to bomb strategic targets, including the shipyards in Kiel, the ball-bearing plants in Schweinfurt, facilities Wilhelmshaven submarine, a tire plant in Hannover, airfields near Paris, an aircraft factory in Nantes, and a mine of magnesium and the reduction plant in Norway.
On September 15, 1943, the BG 92D was transferred to the Royal Air Force Podington (Station 109), near Wellingborough in Bedfordshire, when made the decision to take off Alconbury bombing missions and changing operational mission airfield and radar-guided Pathfinder attack in groups 482d and eight hundred and first Bomba.
YB-40 Project
His 327th became the only squadron to be equipped with a combat helicopter pilot YB-40 May-August 1943, Fortaleza. The YB-40 was developed to test the concept bomber escort. Because there were no combatants capable of escorting bomber formations on deep strike missions early World War II, the USAF tested heavily armed bombers to act as escorts and protect the aircraft carrying a bomb enemy fighters. Twelve of the 22 bombers B-17F configuration modified for the YB-40 were sent to Alconbury for testing and evaluation.
The YB-40 project failed because the planes were able to defend effectively only they were too slow because of excess weight and drag to keep up with formations of bombers returning from missions, and had features basic flying altered by the added drag and the center of gravity changes as a result of the changes. After 14 operational missions, the 11 YB-40 survivors were put out of combat and returned to the United States.
95th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
The smoking remains of Boeing B-17F-65-BO, serial No. 42-29685 AAF
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From 15 April to the first week of June 1943, the 95th Bombardment Group was stationed at RAF Alconbury, transfer of Rapid City AAF, South Dakota. This was during a time of massive construction of airfields in East Anglia and assigned station 95, the RAF Horham (Station 119) was not yet ready for receiving group. The 95th was assigned to the 13th Combat Bombardment Wing of the RAF Horsham St Faith The group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses with a tail code of "B Plaza." Its operating units were:
334th Bomb Squadron (BG)
335th Bomb Squadron (OE)
336th Bomb Squadron (ET)
412 Bomb Squadron (QW)
During his stay in Alconbury, the group aircraft were being transported from the ground and step reached in transport ship in the United Kingdom. Practice Flight and family was held, and on 13 May, the first operational mission was moved to attack an airfield at St. Omer. During the following month, the group made repeated attacks against V-weapon sites and airfields in France. On 27 May, the ground staff of approximately 2030 hours, were building B-17F 42-29685 at dispersal area when, inexplicably, a 500-pound bomb exploded. The explosion, in turn, set off several other bombs. In an instant, 18 men were killed, 21 wounded, four-and B-17 completely destroyed on the ground. Eleven other B-17s were damaged.
In early June 1943 the 95th BG began to move to RAF Horham, with the last aircraft departing Alconbury on 15 June.
482d Bombardment Group (Pathfinder)
Map WWII USAAF, RAF Alconbury
482d Group pump B-24 RAF Alconbury England on bomb run over occupied Europe - 1943
In the summer of 1943, experiments with radar bombing high through clouds were carried out. A special organization, the 482d Bombardment Group, was formed to use this technology and will focus on Pathfinder techniques using H2S and H2X RADAR APS-15A was developed.
The 482d Bomb Group was formed in Alconbury Aug. 20, 1943, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel R. Lawrence Baskin, who had been training their BG 92D since May 1. Its operating units were:
812 Bomb Squadron (MI)
813 Squadron pump (PC)
814th Bomb Squadron (SI)
The 812th Bomb Squadron arrived from the United States in September with 12 new B-17 aircraft equipped with U.S. manufactured H2S radar. The 813 was a re-designation of the 325th Bomb Squadron, 92D Bomb Group, who had been training in the British manufacturing H2S and Oboe B-17 since May. The 814th flew B-24 Liberator aircraft purchased from a group broke up anti-submarine warfare. The 482d Group was unique among Air Force units Eighth, since it was the only one officially working in the UK from scratch.
The 482d BG always Pathfinder (PFF) aircraft lead to another bomb group throughout the winter of 1943-1944. While lead planes, 482 BG B-17 and B-24 flew missions usually stations other groups with some key personnel of host group flight on the plane browser.
In March 1944, the 482d BG withdrew from combat operations and became a unit of training and development for various radar devices, but continued to carry out special operations, in particular the D-Day, when 18 computers were provided to lead groups of pump.
The BG 482d was transferred to the composite command in February 1944, when the focus shifted to the radar operators training. The 482d was started a training school H2X on February 21, 1944, graduated from a class of 36 radar navigators each month as the first PFF power was decentralized to the divisions of air and, finally, to all battle groups, with an initial training conducted by instructors from the RAF. Training and testing is still the main function of the rest of the war.
From August 1944 to April 1945 BG 202 482d held radar screen and "pickling" flights over hostile territory without loss, dropping 45 tons bombs in Nazi-controlled territory. In November 1944, the group was re-designated as the 482d Bomb Group, Heavy.
Eight hundred and first Bombardment Group (Provisional)
In November 1943, a unit was created to provide clandestine agents and supplies to the Nazi-occupied Europe by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). To fulfill this mission, the 36th and 406 bomb squads specially modified B-24 was formed and is active in Alconbury. Attached to the 482nd Bombardment Group. This was the beginning of the project adventurer.
The project's purpose was to fly adventurer Special Operations missions that involved the provision of supplies to resistance groups in enemy occupied countries. Squads Flight staff and supplies to the south of France with the B-24 that had been removed except all the weapons at the top and tail turrets. The channels with standard pump that was taken from the bomb bay and shackles British special containers installed to accommodate the supply. All radio equipment not needed is removed, the As the oxygen cylinders. Flash suppressors are installed in the weapons, flame dampers were installed in the turbocharger and blackout curtains were installed on windows gun belt. The bulbs were painted red for night vision parts and special radio equipment has been added to help in navigation and homing in areas trawl. The underside of the aircraft were painted black to avoid detection by enemy searchlights. The combat with the enemy was avoided, since only in danger the success of the mission. Drops are also made use of radio-navigation equipment. Supplies are also present in the tanks to be discharged from the existing equipment in the bomb bay. The pilots often flew several kilometers inside enemy territory after completing the fall of disguising the actual drop zone If enemy observers were monitoring the movement of aircraft.
These squadrons were formed from personnel and equipment from the recently dissolved Squads submarine and fourth day 22 in the RAF Podington. However, due to lack of adequate infrastructure in Alconbury, in mid-December the two squadrons were reassigned to the Eighth Air Force made Command (Special Operations Group), (remaining attached to the 482d Bomb Group) and moved to RAF Watton (Station 376), near Thetford in Norfolk.
The move to RAF Watton was shown to be fortuitous. The heavy B-24 were incompatible with the grass and mud tracks there and hard classification were forced to return to Alconbury in January 1944.
On January 4, 1944, the aircraft squadrons Carperbagger made his first drop of arms and supplies to the French partisans, Belgians and Italians. Often operating in a climate considered impossible for the flight, the squadrons flew most of its missions to the French offer partisan groups north of the river Loire, in support of the upcoming D-Day invasion. Due to the clandestine nature of his mission, of Alconbury relative openness is inappropriate. However, a new airfield under construction in the depths of rural Northamptonshire, RAF Harrington (Station 179) was ideal for adventurous operations. The squad advanced stage Harrington moved to the March 25, 1944.
On 1 April the 36th and 406 bomb squads were attached to the eight hundred and first Bombardment Group (Provisioanl) and adventurers May 1 Alconbury officially started. The eight hundred and first (provisional) over time acquired the name of the 492d Bombardment Group, a unit of the 2d Division resigned on August 11, 1944, because of heavy losses and the two squadrons were designated the 856th (before 36) and 858th (formerly 406th) Bomber Squadrons.
36th Bomb Squadron
The redesignation adventurer-squad made the designation of "36th Bombardment Squadron, available again and was assigned to the 803d Bomb Squadron, a squadron Provisional located at RAF Cheddington and known as the radar countermeasures (RCM) Unit. This third incarnation of the 36th BS (the first had been a unit of Eleventh Air Force) Alconbury again in February 1945 and was administratively assigned to the 482d Bombardment Group. However, operational control for missions of the 36th special training were performed by Eighth Air Force Headquarters.
The 36th Bomb Squadron was only the Eighth Air Force fleet of war enabled electronically using B-24 to play Nazi VHF communications in large raids Eighth Day of the Air Force. On the other hand, the 36th BS flew night missions with the Royal Air Force Bomber Command 100 RAF Sculthorpe Group.
The missions of the 36th BS is involved deception deception, ingenious, parodies, and tank communications jams. This squadron flew in bad weather days during the Battle of the Bulge, and when the rest of the Eighth Air Force resigned.
Along with these electronic warfare missions, the 36th BS also flew regular missions set out to find the frequencies used by the Nazis for their radio and devices radar. For that operates a number of P-38 Lightning fighters Alconbury double boom and its B-24.
Station 547 - Abbots Ripton, Second Strategic Air Depot
Besides being an operational bomber base, RAF Alconbury airfield served as for the second Strategic Air Depot at RAF Abbots Ripton (station 547), who served the B-17 of the 1st Airborne Division as an important basis for maintenance. Though physically connected, the deposit was considered a separate entity, an independent unit of the RAF Alconbury.
The air reservoir was built in 1943 on the site east of the airfield, especially in the village Little Stukeley, approximately where the current of today's facilities Alconbury Royal Air Force is currently. It consists of a taxiway loop track 24 additional hardstands perimeter. A technical complexity of the repair shop was adjacent to the site and beyond along the south side east of the A14. Also There were several barracks and platitudes.
Abbots Ripton perform major maintenance, repair and modification of the B-17 of the fourteen groups that formed the first Wing bombing, later renamed the 1st Division bombardment on September 13, 1943, to end the confusion of the word "wings" with wings combat operation (in January 1945, was renamed again, becoming the first division of the air). It was a common sight to see many many B-17 groups of the 8th Air Force repair process to repair battle damage from bases such as Molesworth, Chelveston, Kimbolton, Bassingbourn, Grafton Underwood, Polebrook, Glatton, Deenethorpe, Nuthampstead, Podington, Bovington, Watton, Harrington, Thurleigh and Ridgwell.
His appointment was the unity of the groups 5th Air Depot and 35th and as a large and important, with more than 3,000 assigned personnel.
Station 103 - Brampton, First Air Division
Brampton, near 3 miles (5 kilometers) southwest of Alconbury, was the headquarters of the 8th Air Force bombing of the wing first, later renamed the 1st Bombardment Division September 13, 1943, to end the confusion of the word "wings" on the wings of combat operations (In January 1945, was renamed again, becoming in the first division of the air). From RAF Brampton Grange, as it was called in official records, the first BW / BD / AD conducted the combat operations of the B-17 bomber and battle groups under his command on 19 August 1942 until the end of the war. It was an administrative headquarters based at Alconbury for logistical support and flight requirements.
Postwar USAAF use
Operational missions attacker left Alconbury Royal Air Force in late April 1945. The 482nd Bomb Group departed Alconbury between May 2730 1945, however, the 36th bomb squadron stayed in the base to the fall, do not turn off until 15 October.
day to day command of Alconbury was assumed by the 435th Air Services Group on 15 April. The final USAAF base commander was Colonel Robert F. Hambaugh.
The 857th Bomb Squadron of the 492d Bomb Group was transferred at Alconbury on 11 June of the RAF near Kettering Harrington after the closure of the airport. The 857th used its B-24 carrying various cargo operations to and from the continent until 6 August to be disabled.
The 652d Bomb Squadron was transferred from RAF Watton on 11 June. This squadron flew specially equipped B-17 weather reconnaissance missions until 25 October.
Hq., 1st Airborne Division was transferred to Alconbury on 20 September at the close of Brampton Grange. Both first AD and the Agreement on Safeguards 435th was inactivated on 31 October and the facility back to headquarters. Eighth Air Force. Alconbury airfield was handed over to the RAF 26 November 1945.
RAF Alconbury was subsequently placed in caretaker status by the Royal Air Force maintenance command and remained so for nearly a decade. Until 1951, the RAF used the airfield as a pump storage and disposal site.
USAF use: 1953-current
Map of the Royal Air Force Alconbury around 1977. Note the contours of the former Abbots Ripton Air Depot hardstands still visible.
In response to the threat of the Soviet Union, especially after blockade of Berlin 1948 and the 1950 invasion of South Korea by communist forces, it was decided in 1951 to reestablish a U.S. force in Europe. On August 24, 1951, the Royal Air Force Alconbury was again allocated for use of America - now independent States Air Force.
Alconbury was far be sufficient in World War II configuration, both at its facilities in flight and accommodation, so plans were designed for further expansion to accommodate the new jet aircraft and other workplaces. Alconbury modernization required a strengthening and extension of the runway 12-30 to 3,000 yards (2,700 m) by 67 yards (61 m). In addition, new aircraft standings, access tracks along with an ongoing construction of the service and residential buildings continued for several years.
7560th Air Base Group
The United States Forces air in Europe (USAFE) officially took control of the Royal Air Force Alconbury a second time on June 1, 1953. The first base commander was Lt. Col. Winfield H. Brown. The first U.S. Air Force unit that was assigned Maintenance Squadron's first Motor Transport, which are activated at the station in September 1, 1953.
On January 1, 1954, the 7523d Support Squadron was activated. This was renamed later as Squadron 7560th Air Base on 7 November 1954 and the 7560th Air Base Group on March 21, 1955.
86th Bombardment Squadron
North American B-45A-1-NA serial Tornado No. 48-0010 AF Bomb Squadron 86. This aircraft is now on display at the Museum United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
Although construction had been underway since 1951 in Alconbury, it was not until September 1955 he was ready to fly home units again with the arrival of the 86th Bombardment Squadron (Light), flying the B-45A Tornado.
The 86th BS operated from Alconbury as a detachment of 47 of the Tactical Air Command Bombardment Wing stationed at RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk. The 47th BS had three jet bomber squadrons (19th, And the 85th 84th) of Sculthorpe and adding the 86th BS Alconbury need to use to accommodate the additional aircraft.
In May 1958, the retrofitting of the 47th Bomb Wing B-66 began and began flying in Alconbury destroyers to replace the B-45s. With this change of equipment, the 86th was redesignated the 86th Bombardment Squadron (Tactical.) The 47th Bomb Wing and the 86th Bomb Squadron were part of the Tactical Air Command (TAC).
42d Troop Carrier Squadron
In May 1957, troop transport squadron 42d Alconbury reached with a mixed fleet of C-119 Flying boxcar, AmphibiansC Grumman SA-16A-47-54s C and the Dakotas. The TCS 42d formed at nearby RAF Molesworth in October 1956 where he had worked previously as the MAT 582d Air Resupply and Communications Group operations missions Headquarters USAFE special.
42d TCS had a short life in Alconbury and deterring the December 8, 1957. The C-54 and C 47-were sent to Rhein-Main Air Base West Germany, and the C-119s were sent to the 322d Air Division at Evreux-Fauville Air Base in France.
53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron
BM-50D Series, No. 48-0115 AF, weather reconnaissance aircraft
The Alconbury April 26, 1959 saw the arrival of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron RAF Burtonwood. The 53rd WRS flew the WB-50D Superfortress and was assigned to Military Air Transport Service (MATS). Its mission was to collect weather data that was transmitted of weather stations for use in the forecast for the preparation of the Air Force. Military Air Transport Service (MATS) and the U.S. Weather Bureau. The squadron was reassigned to RAF Mildenhall on 10 August 1959 in conjunction with the arrival of the 10th TRW.
Tenth Tactical Reconnaissance Wing
On August 25, 1959, the 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing arrived from Spangdahlem Air Base, West Germany, replacing the 7560th Air Base Group as host unit in Alconbury. The 7560th was deactivated. The 10th TRW was activated Frstenfeldbruck Airbase, West Germany in April 1947, assigned to Toul-Rosieres the Air Base, France in 1952 after Spangdahlem in 1953 as part of several reorganizations USAFE.
In Germany, the 10 TRW operated RF-80A Shooting Stars and reconnaissance aircraft RB-26C Invader. In October 1954, the wing received RB-57 Canberra and then acquired Thunderjets RF-84 July 1955. In November 1956 received on 10 Douglas RB-66 and BM 66-Destroyer aircraft in 1957.
B-66 was
Douglas RB-66B-DL Destroyer, AF Serial Number 54-0419, converted to EB-66E, the Det. 1, 10 TRW Toul-Rosieres AB, France. This aircraft was withdrawn in October 1972 MASDC
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USAFE organizational changes in 1959 the 10th TRW moved out of the Eifel and Alconbury, where the living wing in the next 34. To accommodate the 10th TRW, the 86th Bomb Squadron was returned to his unit at RAF Sculthorpe and the 53rd Weather Squadron was transferred to RAF Mildenhall. These transfers were conducted in August 1959.
Although the headquarters of the 10th TRW wing was located in the Royal Air Force Alconbury, two of the squads that comprise were not. The tactic of 1 and 30 Squadrons based at Alconbury recognition, but to accommodate the largest number of aircraft 10, two other airfields, RAF and Chelveston Bruntingthorpe RAF, were placed under the control of Alconbury. The 19th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron was stationed at Bruntingthorpe while Countermeasures Electronic flight squadron 42nd Chelveston RB-66C and the BM-66s for electronics and the time of recognition.
Following the closure of Bruntingthorpe in 1962 and the active runway Chelveston in 1963, EPI 19 and 42nd were moved to Toul-Rosieres AB, where it ran for several years as Detective # 1, 10th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing. Finally the plane 10 TRW happen to Toul AB 4 different teams, the first, 19, 30 and 42d.
On March 10, 1964, 42 TRS RB-66C was shot down deployed in Toul on East Germany after having crossed the border because of a malfunction of the instrument. The crew ejected and were imprisoned briefly before being released.
These rotational deployments to France continued until October 1965 with the activation of the 25th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing-Bussières Chambley AFB and 19th and 42nd TRSquadrons be permanently assigned to the 25th TRW.
With the withdrawal of France from the integrated military organization of NATO in 1966 and closed Chambley AB 25th TRW was inactivated. The RB-66s of the 19th TRS were returned to CONUS and was assigned to the 363rd TRW, Shaw AFB, SC. The specially equipped B-66 of the ECS 42 and their crews were sent directly to Southeast Asia, being assigned to the 41st Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron (TEWS), the Royal Thai AFB Takhli (RTAFB) Thailand.
Bruntingthorpe was returned to the RAF. RAF Chevelston still nominally under U.S. control, however, only a small USAF housing area exists today.
RF-4C was
McDonnell RF-24-MC-4C Phantom II of the Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron first August 14, 1971. This aircraft was retired to AMARC in March 1992.
In Alconbury 10th TRW maintained the TRS 1 and 30 with its RB-66s until May 1965 when it began converting to the RF-4C Phantom. The 10 TRW extended the August 15, 1966 by adding of the 32 TRS. This squadron had flown before RF-101 Voodoo to the 66th TRW at Laon-Couvron Air Base France, but was now equipped with RF-4C, becoming the third squad reconstruction Alconbury Royal Air Force tac.
In the mid 1960s he adopted the concept of queuing for the Code of the Air Force for identify their planes but never painted on the aircraft until after 1970. In Alconbury, codes of "AR", "AS" and "AT" is established for the first, TRS 30 and the 32nd initially, however this was dropped in 1971. After that, all assigned aircraft carried Alconbury "AR" in the queue. 10th TRW squads were distinguished by a small band of color at the tip of the tail - a TRS (blue), 30 TRS (red) and 32 TRS (yellow). In 1972, due to intensive use of the track by these ghosts, the track was refurbished, during which time the aircraft and pilots went to the Royal Air Force Wethersfield fly their missions. Missions this basis were a great success, due to the diligence and hard work of all personnel assigned temporarily. This assignment was a flight line TDY previously closed.
The advent of reconnaissance satellites makes the need for reconstruction tactics less necessary by the mid 1970s. This, together with need for budget cuts caused the reduction in the number of first-line aircraft Recon tactical. In 1976, two squadrons of the 10th TRW (32nd TRS on January 1, TRS 1 April thirtieth) were deactivated. The first was the squadron TRS offers only the battlefield tactical reconnaissance.
In August 1976, 10 TRW became the parent organization of the 66th Combat Support Squadron (CSS), 819th Civil Engineering Squadron Heavy Repair (CESHR) and 2166th Communications Squadron stationed at RAF Wethersfield. This field serves as a site of dispersal of war games, in particular Able Archer 83. In addition, large quantities of war reserve material (WRM), appointed by the Royal Air Force Alconbury is stored there. Wethersfield Royal Air Force maintained a satellite base for the Royal Air Force Alconbury until July 3, 1990 when it was closed and returned to the Royal Air Force.
527th Tactical Fighter Training and Squadron Aggressor
Northrop F-5E Tiger II, AF Serial not.being 73-0953, 73-0956 and 73-0985 of the 527th formation TFTAS 1977
In April 1976, the 10th TRW was chosen as the father of USAF aggressor unit in Europe. This was like the 527th Tactical Fighter Training and Aggressor Squadron in April 1976 and was equipped with F-5E May. The planes were originally part of an order for South Vietnam. The 527th began supporting the aggressor based combat units in Europe in September. It was subsequently renamed as the 527th Aggressor Squadron in 1983.
The aggressor F-5Es were painted in a variety of schemes designed to camouflage color are similar to those used by aircraft Warsaw Pact. Two-digit codes of the Soviet-style nose applied to more aggressor aircraft. These coincided with the last two digits of standard. When there was a double, three digits were used.
International conventions made it necessary for military aircraft to bring its national emblems, but the insignia of stars and national bar was reduced in size and moved to a less visible position in the rear of the fuselage. The 527th aggressor aircraft were among the first to apply the star-shaped bar and live or templates, now standard in the USAF aircraft.
After 12 years of intense flight in 1988 the fleet F-5Es aggressor from the 527th Aggressor Squadron was tired and not as a result of sustained exposure to the rigors of air combat maneuvers. There were no restrictions operations in which pilots were warned not to exceed a given G-load. Some repair kits had to be devised to overcome these problems, and cost estimated repair the entire fleet was beginning to exceed a trillion dollars. And with the emergence of a new generation of Soviet fighters, it became apparent that the F-5Es may no longer adequately mimic Warsaw Pact threats.
It was decided to equip the squad to counter the F-16C Falcons and reallocate Squadron of the RAF Bentwaters. In return, the A-10 would be reassigned to Alconbury Bentwaters and give the 10th a new close air support (CAS) mission.
The 527th AS flew his last start F-5E Alconbury on 22 June 1988. On July 14, 1988 the squadron was transferred, the transition to the F-16Cs in mid-January 1989 Bentwaters. However, in 1990 with the collapse of the Soviet Union took the decision to suspend the entire program USAF aggressor. The 527th AS was inactivated in late autumn 1990.
After the 527th was reassigned, the lowest eight F-5E hours, were transferred to the U.S. Navy for TOPGUN / NAS Miramar aggressor training, California in July 1988. The rest were sent to storage at RAF Kemble for renewal. From there they were sold under the foreign military assistance program in Morocco and Tunisia in October 1989. An F-5E was thought to be held at Alconbury for static display as a guard at the door. In reality it is a plastic / fiber glass with a model of real windshield and canopy.
17th Reconnaissance Wing
95th reconnaissance squadron Lockheed TR-1A series, No. 80-1081 AF - 1989
The Strategic Air Command arrived at Alconbury on October 1, 1982, when the 17th Reconnaissance Wing (17th RW) has been activated. The RW 17 was assigned to the Eighth Air Force SAC, 7th Air Division. The operational squadron of the 17th was the 95th RW reconnaissance squadron, flying the TR-1A, a reconnaissance version Tactical Lockheed U-2. In 1992 all TR-1 were designated U-2RS.
The arrival of the U-2 led to a reshaping of much of the northern section of field aircraft to accommodate these aircraft and mission specialist. The works included the construction of five prefabricated sheds Eady, thirteen extra wide hardened shelters aircraft, a squadron headquarters, a massive photo Avionics and Interpretation Center, and new concrete pads and taxiways. In addition, in order of enusre that the 17th Reconnaissance Wing would always have a command post of the TR-1A aircraft, a plant with nuclear-hardened command post was built with its own power plant, communications facilities, air supply and decontamination facility to help facilitate the needs of aircraft wings and TR-1A in the case a World War III scenario never happened. During operation, it was officially known as Building 210, but was best known by his nickname, Magic Mountain.
As the TR-1A constantly became the primary means of battlefield and tactical reconnaissance, so the demands on the RF-4C Phantom decreased. On the other hand, the 1960s were becoming ghosts costs more to maintain. On July 1, 1987, the RF-4C of the first Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron flew its last mission and the squadron was inactivated on 15 January 1988. Some of their planes were sent to the 26th TRW at Zweibrücken AB, West Germany, while the rest went to units Air National Guard aircraft replacement cost or to AMARC for storage.
Tenth Tactical Fighter Wing
With the withdrawal of the RF-4C and F-5E 10 TRW became the 10th Tactical Fighter Wing, 20 August 1987. Two squadrons of aircraft A-10A. The 509th and 511th TFsquadrons, were assigned to TFW tenth, on June 1 and September 1, 1988, respectively, transferred from the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing at RAF Bentwaters.
Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II AF Serial Number 81-0979 - Aircraft Wing Commander's tenth TFWs - 1990
The A-10 had come to Europe in January 1979, and four squadrons were assigned to Bentwaters. It was decided that the deactivation of the RF-4C in Alconbury that two of the squadrons that could be relocated to a shift out, with the other two Bentwaters remaining.
The constant pressure on the main runway at Alconbury after almost 35 years, inevitably, made it necessary for major repairs performed. Between April and November 1989 the main runway was closed and reviewed. During this period, the A-10s were deployed at RAF Wyton near, while the TR-1A were sent to the Royal Air Force Sculthorpe.
Shield Desert / Storm
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, plans were made for significant cuts in forces of NATO in Europe and soon the first rumors began circulating about the possible closure of RAF Alconbury. Just as the process of cutting back was beginning, Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and started the Gulf War.
Some of the first aircraft to be sent to the Gulf area TR-1A of three of Alconbury, implementation Taif Air Base in Saudi Arabia. 23 A-10A 511 TFS deployed in Dammam / King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia, as part of the 354th TFW from Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina.
The TFS 511 A-10 flew missions not less than 1700 combat during Operation Desert Storm and played an important role in causing havoc on the forces Tank Iraqi Scud missiles land and other charges.
Post-Cold War Phasedown
With the end of the Cold War, the presence in the RAF Alconbury USAF has been phased out.
On June 30, 1991, closely following the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the thawing of East-West Wing Recognition 17th inactivated, but its subordinate unit, the 95th Reconnaissance Squadron, remained at Alconbury as the 17th Training Wing, a non-flying. Subsequently, inactivated at Alconbury on 15 September 1993, then reactivated on 1 July 1994, the 95th RS at RAF Mildenhall, assigned to the 55th Operations Group. The squadron provides intelligence support to produce politically sensitive intelligence data in real time vital to national foreign policy.
Magic Mountain closed during this time as the Soviet threat no longer existed.
The U-2RS consolidated Beale Air Force Base in California in the ninth wing, which still systematically implemented on a RAF Mildenhall TDY. [Citation needed]
On December 16, 1991 the 509th TFS flew its last operational mission. The last Mission TFS 511 was the March 27, 1992. During 1992, 10 TFWs-10 planes were transferred to the United States States. The 509 TFS aircraft were sent directly AMARC flyable storage long term. Some of the 511 TFS aircraft were sent to units of the Air National Guard, and the rest AMARC storage. The last plane left the runway Alconbury on 18 December. The two fighter squadrons were inactivated at that time.
Air Base Wing tenth
On 31 March 1993 the tenth TFW was renamed the Air Base Wing tenth, as host of the unit of special operations organizations.
On 1 December 1992 the 39th Special Operations Wing arrived at Alconbury, consolidation of its units from RAF Woodbridge and Rhein Main Air Base, Germany. After consolidating its aircraft and people at the base, the 39th SOW inactive, and the 352nd Special Operations Group activated, the linkage of the assets of the unit with a historic unity of command of the Second World War. The 352nd SOG squads consisted of the following:
Seventh Special Operations Squadron (MC-130H)
21st Squadron Special Operations (MH-53J)
67th Special Operations Squadron (MC-130 N / P)
321st Special Tactics Squadron
352nd Special Operations Fleet Maintenance
The 352d out both fixed and helicopter operations and search and rescue missions in the European cinema and southwest Asia.
In May 1993, part of the reduction of U.S. forces in Europe, it was announced that activities at Alconbury would be reduced. The 10th Air Base Wing was Inactivated October 1, 1994. To maintain the heritage of the unit, the Air Force moved the 10th Air Base Wing flag to the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, on November 1, 1994 in which it exists today. Instead, the 710th Air Base Wing (ABW) was activated in the host unit at the Royal Air Force Alconbury.
The 352nd Special Operations Group and its associated aircraft, the MC-130H, MC-130P and MH-53J Pave Low, transferred to RAF Mildenhall on 17 February 1995. This ended USAF active flying operations from RAF Alconbury.
The area of airfield and associated infrastructure were returned to the Ministry of Defence by the USAF, the September 30, 1995. The main areas of support base (the part of the base containing activities such as housing, base exchange, police station, financial institutions, administrative and support offices) remained in control of the USAF. The former airfield site of the RAF Alconbury Alconbury is now managed by Promotions Limited.
423d Air Base Group
On July 12, 1995 the National Security Agency 710th was inactivated and the 423d Air Base Squadron RAF Molesworth assumed the role of the host unit in Alconbury and RAF Upwood.
In July 2005, the 423d National Security Agency was renamed the Group of the 423d Air Base and its headquarters and the mission was transferred to the Royal Air Force Alconbury.
The 501st Combat Support Wing (501 CSW) was reactivated March 22, 2005 RAF Mildenhall. Their mission was the management of different geographically separated units in the United Kingdom. On May 1, 2007, the wing moved to RAF Alconbury.
Instructions
RAF Alconbury can reached by driving on the A1 (M) to Exit 14 (B1043) at Alconbury. Follow the B1043, following the Red / Black RAF Alconbury signs around the roundabout. Field aircraft part was closed by the Ministry of Defence in 1993 and is now privately owned. The portion of the station is just south of Little Stukely in the east. It is a season active military, and access is restricted.
Club Aquarius
Since the 1960s, the Club of Alconbury RAF airman was considered one of the best clubs night in the United Kingdom. He became known as the "Aquarium of the Club." In the mid 1960s, artists from the main line is often performed there. Mid of the 1970s, the "AQ Club", as he was known, was considered one of the best disco dance clubs.
Every Friday and Saturday at night two or three busloads of women, mostly from the local area of Huntingdon, but also the cities of Kettering and Corby Northamptonshire ... the "Corby Commandoes "*... Be allowed on the base to go to the club and socialize with the young and virile airmen from RAF Alconbury American cultural exchange in the club. Ladies had a night of enjoyment for 50 pence in the rate of return of the bus. Quite a few ladies were frequent visitors, however, every weekend, new ladies come.
Normally, the club would be standing-room-only with men and women in their early, but thirty years enjoying the disco, pizza, slot machines, beer, cocktails, and members of the opposite sex attractive in an environment that matched the best clubs in London at the time. There was an annual membership fee Airman but there was never a cover to enter the Club Aquarium and the prices of food and drink were much less than you would pay in London.
Many single men and women met with their future spouses at the Aquarius club. Although Alconbury NCO Club had also music and dance, the environment in the Aquarius Club was more geared towards the unique Airmen and was much faster. The proportion of women to men was usually two to one on the weekends.
The term "Commander" is origins shrouded in legend. As legend has it, the entrance to the AQ was for a fee that is usually paid by the man who signed to escort a young woman in particular. Before the signature was required, the first 50 women were admitted to the club free. This created a mad rush to be among the first in the club. It is alleged that one night a aviator saw the bus arrives and the ladies were fighting to get into the club. The airman said his friend, "Look at them, look like a bunch of Command."
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Notes
^ Fletcher, Harry R. (1989) the Air Force Bases Volume II, Active Air Force Bases outside the United States of America on September 17, 1982. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office History of the Air Force. ISBN 0912799536
^ Mauer, Mauer (1969), fighter squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, the Air Force Office Historical Studies, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. ISBN 0892010975
References
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^ Fletcher, Harry R. (1989) The Air Bases Force Volume II, Active Air Force Bases outside the United States of America on September 17, 1982. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0912799536
^ Mauer, Mauer (1969), fighter squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, Office of Historical Studies of the Air Force, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. ISBN 0892010975
Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office U.S. 1961 (reprinted 1983, Office of Air Force History, ISBN 0-912799-02-1).
Ravenstein, Charles A. Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 19,471,977. Force Base Maxwell Air, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1984. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.
Fletcher, Harry R. (1989) The Air Force Bases Volume II, active Air Force Bases outside the United States of America on September 17, 1982. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0912799536
Freeman, Roger A. (1978) aerodromes of the Eighth: Then and Now. After the Battle ISBN 0900913096
Freeman, Roger A. (1991) The Mighty Eighth The Colour Record. Cassell & Co. ISBN 0-304-35708-1
Martin, Patrick (1994). Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF tactical aircraft marks tail code. Historical Schiffer Military Aviation. ISBN 0887405134.
Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications. ISBN 1-85780-197-0.
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