RAF Southend/rochford
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RAF Southend, at Rochford in Essex, was a flying field from 1915 and in the Battle of Britain served as a fighter satellite of Hornchurch in No. 11 Group. Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane squadrons — among them an Eagle squadron of American volunteers, and Polish, Czech and Commonwealth units — scrambled from it against the Luftwaffe over the Thames Estuary. It returned to civil use after the war and is now London Southend Airport.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Rochford (Southend) — Wikipedia and Southend (Eastwood) — 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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