RAF West Malling
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RAF West Malling, in the Kent Weald, was a flying field from 1930 and became a celebrated night-fighter station. The Bristol Beaufighters and de Havilland Mosquitoes of No. 29 and other squadrons flew from it, and in the summer of 1944 the Spitfires of the Dutch No. 322 Squadron flew against the V-1 flying bombs. It remained a leading night-fighter base into the jet age before closing in 1969; the site is now the Kings Hill development, with the control tower and officers’ mess surviving.
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