RAF Witchford

England — County: Cambridgeshire

52.3811, 0.2308 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Witchford opened in Cambridgeshire near Ely in 1943 as a Bomber Command station in No. 3 Group. Its main resident, No. 115 Squadron, flew Avro Lancasters from the airfield on the offensive against Germany, alongside other Lancaster and Stirling squadrons, losing nearly a hundred aircraft on operations. The station closed in 1946, and most of the site is now the Lancaster Way Business Park, with a small museum recalling its history.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Witchford — Wikipedia and Witchford — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Construction of an airfield for No. 3 Group RAF at Witchford, Cambridgeshire: three bulldozers levelling the ground with scrapers.
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force official photographer, Trievnor J (Plt Off) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CE32.jpgView source & full licence →
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Construction of an airfield for No. 3 Group RAF at Witchford, Cambridgeshire: a bulldozer spreads bricks from bombed buildings as hardcore for the new runways.
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force official photographer, Trievnor J (Plt Off) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CE29.jpgView source & full licence →
Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. Construction of an airfield for No. 3 Group RAF at Witchford, Cambridgeshire: a bulldozer and a No. 10 Ruston Bucyrus dragline excavator at work on a gravel pile.
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Air Force official photographer, Trievnor J (Plt Off) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Air_Force_Bomber_Command,_1942-1945._CE25.jpgView source & full licence →

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