RAF Snaith
England — County: Yorkshire
About
RAF Snaith — sometimes called Pollington, after the village beside it — opened in July 1941 in the low country south-west of Goole, a bomber station of No. 4 Group. No. 150 Squadron flew Vickers Wellingtons from Snaith in its first year, and from October 1942 the airfield’s long-serving unit was No. 51 Squadron, which operated Handley Page Halifaxes through to the spring of 1945. A third unit, No. 578 Squadron, was formed at Snaith early in 1944 before moving on to Burn.
The station closed soon after the war, and in the 1970s the M62 motorway was driven straight across the old airfield. Some of the former WAAF accommodation survives on Long Lane and now houses a small museum to RAF Snaith and the men who served there.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust — Snaith (Pollington) and Wikipedia: RAF Snaith. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
Photographs
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Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:51_Squadron_Halifax_crew_return_from_Ruhr_WWII_IWM_CH_10293.jpgView source & full licence →Home to
- No. 51 Squadron — 4 Group
People connected to this base
35 persons cross-referenced to this airfield — through a posting here, a squadron based here, or aircrew who flew from it.
| Name | Rank | Connection | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams, Louis Robert | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Adams, Reginald Hartley | Warrant Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Binder, Jack Percival George | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Bowling, Harold | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Bradshaw, Allan James | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Brear, James | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Brooks, James | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Brougham, Geoffrey Graham | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Buckingham, Eric Montague | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Churchill, Dennis Arthur | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Connell, Thomas Samuel | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Cummins, Alfred Peter | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Dadds, Kenneth | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Glass, Stewart | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Goskirk, John Doherty | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Guy, Walter Austin | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hill, Frederick Peter | Squadron Leader | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Hobbs, Frank | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| James, William Kelso | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Kasher, Frank | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Kelly, Robert Frederick | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Marshall, James Brown | Flying Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| McCormack, Dennis Patrick | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Menary, Basil Hughes | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Monk, Edmund Joseph Paul | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Newstead, Frank Leonard | Pilot Officer | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Nicholl, Jack | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Peel, Lloyd Francis | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Radley, Kenneth McDonald | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Stembridge, Malcolm Mason | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| West, George William | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Wilkins, Edward | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Williams, Arthur Henry | Flight Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Wilson, Raymond Hathaway | Warrant Officer Class II | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |
| Wyness, Louis Henry | Sergeant | Aircrew (squadron based here) | — |