RAF Odiham
About
RAF Odiham opened in Hampshire in 1937 and served in the Second World War as an army-cooperation and fighter station, flying North American Mustangs and Hawker Typhoons. Through the post-war decades it was a fighter and then a transport base before settling into its modern role as a helicopter station. It remains an active RAF main operating base today, home to the Chinook heavy-lift helicopter force.
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Photographs
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Royal Air Force official photographer, Tovey P H F (Mr) / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Forces_in_Britain_during_the_Second_World_War_CH2416.jpgView source & full licence →No people are cross-referenced to this airfield yet. Links appear as squadron postings, crews and service records are added.