RAF Okehampton

RAF Okehampton lay on the northern edge of Dartmoor in Devon and grew out of a landing ground used from the late 1920s by visiting RAF squadrons working with the Army on the Okehampton artillery ranges. Through the early war years it served in the army-cooperation role, with Westland Lysanders of Nos. 16 and 225 Squadrons among the aircraft based or detached there, and it kept watch over the coast against invasion; later it was used as a forward holding and maintenance site. Army air-observation aircraft continued to use the moorland field into the early 1950s before it was given up.