RAF Tain
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RAF Tain opened on the Dornoch Firth in the Scottish Highlands in 1941. It served as a fighter, bomber and maritime-patrol station — Consolidated Liberators of the RAF and the Czech No. 311 Squadron flew anti-U-boat patrols from it, and its aircraft took part in the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz lying in the Norwegian fjords. Flying ended after the war, but the site lives on as the Tain Air Weapons Range, the largest live weapons range in the United Kingdom.
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