RAF Kingsnorth
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RAF Kingsnorth was a temporary Advanced Landing Ground laid out near Ashford in Kent in 1943. Fighter and reconnaissance squadrons — among them units flying North American Mustangs, Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Typhoons, including Canadian and other Allied airmen — operated from its steel-mesh strip on tactical sorties over occupied France, and it served as a forward base in the build-up to D-Day. Like the other Kent advanced grounds it was dismantled in 1944 and the land returned to agriculture.
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