RAF Morpeth
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RAF Morpeth was an air-gunnery training station in Northumberland, laid out at Tranwell south-west of the town and opened in 1942. No. 4 Air Gunnery School trained gunners over the sea at Druridge Bay, flying the underpowered Blackburn Botha and then the Avro Anson; the difficult Bothas caused fatal accidents. Polish and Dutch airmen were among those trained there. Flying ended after the war and the site returned to agriculture, with a blister hangar and an underground control room still surviving.
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