RAF Selsey
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RAF Selsey was a temporary Advanced Landing Ground laid out near the Sussex coast south of Chichester and used in 1943–44. Surfaced with steel-mesh track, it was a fighter strip of the Second Tactical Air Force, home to a succession of Supermarine Spitfire squadrons — British, New Zealand, Belgian, Polish and French — that flew over the beaches in support of the Normandy landings. Once the armies moved on the airfield was dismantled and the land returned to agriculture.
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