RAF Polebrook
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raf-polebrook-283-13912132
title:
RAF Polebrook
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Royal Air Force Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-south-east of Oundle, at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England. The airfield was built on Rothschild estate land starting in August 1940. It was from Polebrook that the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force carried out its first heavy bomb group combat mission on 17 August 1942, and from which Major Clark Gable flew combat missions in 1943.
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Airport in Northamptonshire, England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Polebrook
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2024-03-16T01:22:10Z
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