RAF Thornaby
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RAF Thornaby opened on Teesside in 1929 and served as a Coastal Command station specialising in anti-submarine work and air-sea rescue. Lockheed Hudsons of No. 220 Squadron and the air-sea rescue Warwicks and Ansons of other units flew from it over the North Sea; the “Thornaby Bag”, an emergency survival pack dropped to airmen down in the water, was devised here. The station closed in 1958 and the site is now covered by housing and a shopping centre, a replica Spitfire standing as a memorial.
Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Thornaby — Wikipedia and Thornaby — 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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