RAF Molesworth
About
RAF Molesworth opened in Cambridgeshire in 1941 and was handed to the United States Army Air Forces as Station 107. It became the home of the 303rd Bombardment Group — the “Hell’s Angels” — whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses flew on the Eighth Air Force’s daylight campaign from late 1942, the group winning a Distinguished Unit Citation. After the war the base passed to the US Air Force, becoming a ground-launched cruise-missile site in the 1980s and later a military-intelligence centre. It remains under American control today as a non-flying station.
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