RAF Needs Oar Point
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RAF Needs Oar Point was a temporary Advanced Landing Ground laid out near Lymington on the Hampshire coast and used through the summer of 1944. With a wire-mesh runway, it packed in the four Hawker Typhoon squadrons of No. 146 Wing — Nos. 193, 197, 257 (Burma) and 266 (Rhodesia) — which flew ground-attack sorties over Normandy in support of the invasion before moving on to France. The airfield was dismantled and returned to agriculture in 1945.
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