RAF Warmwell

50.6972, -2.3435 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Warmwell opened in Dorset in 1937 as a fighter and gunnery station in No. 10 Group. Its Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes flew in the Battle of Britain, Westland Whirlwinds operated from it later, and in 1944 the P-38 Lightnings of the USAAF’s 474th Fighter Group were based there. The station closed in 1945; a quarry now occupies the airfield proper and the village of Crossways covers the technical site.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Warmwell — Wikipedia and Warmwell — 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.

Photographs

Remaining Bellman hangars on site of RAF Warmwell
ⓘ licence & creditTerryjane at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bellman_Hangars_Warmwell_2007.JPGView source & full licence →
Aircraft of the Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Westland Whirlwind. Whirlwind Mark I, P7094 ‘HE-T’, of No. 263 Squadron RAF, on the ground at Warmwell, Dorset, with Flying Officer J P Coyne, a Canadian pilot, in the cockpit. The markings below the cockpit indicate that this aircraft was presented to the RAF by the Bellows Foundation in South America.
ⓘ licence & creditGoodchild A (Flying Officer), Royal Air Force official photographer / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aircraft_of_the_Royal_Air_Force_1939-1945-_Westland_Whirlwind._CH8392.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditRoyal Ordinance Survey / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warmwell-16aug43.jpgView source & full licence →

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