RAF Upwood
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RAF Upwood opened in Huntingdonshire in 1936 and, after early bomber and training use, became a No. 8 (Pathfinder) Group station. No. 139 (Jamaica) Squadron flew de Havilland Mosquitoes and No. 156 Squadron flew Avro Lancasters from it, marking targets for the main bomber force and suffering heavy aircrew losses. After the war it remained in RAF and later USAF use as a support station, and much of the site survives, parts of it now redeveloped.
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