RAF Sumburgh
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RAF Sumburgh, on the southern tip of Shetland, was a civil airfield taken over by the RAF in 1939. It served first as a fighter station and then under Coastal Command, its Bristol Beaufighters flying anti-shipping strikes off the Norwegian coast — No. 404 Squadron RCAF pioneering the use of rocket projectiles against enemy vessels from the field. Civil flying resumed after the war, and it is now Sumburgh Airport, the main airport for the Shetland Islands.
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