RAF Shepherds Grove
About
RAF Shepherds Grove opened in Suffolk in 1944 as an airborne-forces station, home to the Short Stirlings of Nos. 196 and 299 Squadrons, which towed gliders and dropped supplies in the closing operations of the war. In the 1950s it was used by the United States Air Force as a jet fighter base, and from 1959 it became a Thor ballistic-missile site until 1963. Flying then ended, and the site has passed to farmland and industry.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Shepherds Grove — Wikipedia and Shepherd's Grove (Hepworth) — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.
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