RAF Upper Heyford
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RAF Upper Heyford opened in Oxfordshire in 1918 and served in the Second World War as a Bomber Command training station, where crews learned their trade on Handley Page Hampdens and Vickers Wellingtons. After the war it became one of the most important United States Air Force bases in Britain, flying jet bombers and then F-111 strike aircraft throughout the Cold War. The Americans left in 1994, and the site is now Heyford Park, redeveloped for housing and business.
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