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Lat/Long N50.52.09/W03.57.43 USAAF Station 460 .Airfield Ident WK.

RUNWAYS: Concrete.09/27 1550 x 50 yds.03/21 1550 x 50 yds.

RAF Winkleigh .Layout as built 1942.
The airfield site today.

Building commenced at Winkleigh in 1940 and was intended as a Coastal Command airfield.However the airfield was not completed until the end of 1942 and eventually opened as a Fighter command station on Jan 1st 1943,but saw little use and put on Care and Maintenance in June 1943.
Used by the USAAF 9th AF from Oct 1943 to Feb 1944 , thereafter by RAF until closure in 1945. Site sold in December 1958 .

Arrived Unit Departed Aircraft type
Oct 43 USAAF.74 Service Grp
9th AF Service Cmd		 circa Feb 44
14-4-1944 4o6 Sqdn. (Det) 17 Sept 1944 Beaufighter VI,Mosquito XII/XX To Colerne
April 1944 286 Sqdn. (Det) ? Hurricane/Defiant
May 1944 415 Sqdn. (Det) 12-7-1944 Albacore To Manston
Feb 43 10 Grp Comms Flt (Det) Oct 43 unknown
mid 1944 161 Sqdn. (Det) Sept 1944 Lysander Special Duties
Jan 1945 Norwegian AF Flying School. 10-11-45 Harvard IIB,Oxford,Cornell
Norseman(Norseman Flight arr & dep May 1945)
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