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Bomber Command - May 1946

[No 1 Group | No 3 Group | No 26 Group | No 91 Group]

Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Units and stations not yet allocated: -

 

RAF Bardney RAF Eye RAF Thorpe Abbotts
RAF Burn RAF Framlingham RAF Thurleigh
RAF Bury St Edmunds RAF Gosfield RAF Warboys
RAF Dalton RAF Knettishall  
Nos 13 Air Crew Holding Units

No 1 (Bomber) Group

HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Binbrook    
No 9 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lancaster I/III
No 12 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lancaster I/III
No 101 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lancaster I/III
No 617 Sqn RAF Binbrook Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Kelstern   Satellite of Binbrook
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Kelstern  
RAF Station Coningsby, RAF Coningsby  
No 83 Sqn RAF Coningsby Lancaster I/III
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn RAF Coningsby Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Woodhall Spa   Satellite of Coningsby
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Woodhall Spa  
RAF Station Faldingworth    
No 300 (Polish) Sqn RAF Faldingworth Lancaster I/III
No 1 Group Communications Flight RAF Finningley Station in No 91 Group
RAF Station Glatton    
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Glatton  
RAF Station Leeming RAF Leeming  
No 427 Sqn RCAF RAF Leeming Lancaster I/III
No 429 Sqn RCAF RAF Leeming Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Lindholme    
No 57 Sqn RAF Lindholme Lincoln I/II & Lancaster I/III
No 100 Sqn RAF Lindholme Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Metheringham    
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Metheringham  
RAF Station Scampton    
No 1 Group Major Servicing Unit RAF Scampton  
RAF Station Hemswell    
No 1687 (Bomber) Defence Training Flt RAF Hemswell Spitfire/Hurricane
No 109 Sqn RAF Hemswell Mosquito XVI/PR XVI
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF Hemswell Mosquito IV/XVI
RAF Station Kirmington   Satellite of Hemswell
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Kirmington  
RAF Station Tholthorpe    
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Tholthorpe  
RAF Station Skipton-on-Swale    
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Skipton-on-Swale Satellite of Tholthorpe
RAF Station Topcliffe    
No 8 (RCAF) Personnel Depot RAF Topcliffe  
RAF Station Waddington  
No 50 Sqn RAF Waddington Lancaster I/III
No 61 Sqn RAF Waddington Lancaster I/III

No 3 Group

HQ - Exning, nr Newmarket, Cambridgeshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Feltwell   Station in TTC
Bomber Command Radar School RAF Feltwell  
RAF Station Graveley    
No 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn RAF Graveley Lancaster I/III
No 115 Sqn RAF Graveley Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Marham    
Central Bomber Establishment RAF Marham Various
RAF Station Downham Market    
RAF Station Mildenhall    
No 15 Sqn RAF Mildenhall Lancaster I/III
No 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF Mildenhall Lancaster I/III, Lincoln I/II
No 3 Group Communications Flight RAF Mildenhall  
RAF Station Methwold    
RAF Station Tuddenham    
No 90 Sqn RAF Tuddenham Lancaster I/III
No 138 Sqn RAF Tuddenham Lancaster I/III
No 149 Sqn RAF Tuddenham Lancaster I/III
No 207 Sqn RAF Tuddenham Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Mepal    
No 7 Sqn RAF Mepal Lancaster I/III
No 49 Sqn RAF Mepal Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Tibenham    
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Tibenham  
RAF Station Hardwick    
Care and Maintenance Party RAF Hardwick  
RAF Station Woodbridge    
Emergency Runway RAF Woodbridge  
Bomb Ballistic Unit RAF Woodbridge A Ministry of Aircraft Production unit
Blind Landing Experimental Unit RAF Woodbridge  
RAF Station Wyton    
No 3 Group Major Servicing Unit RAF Wyton  
No 13 Aircraft Modification Unit RAF Wyton  
No 1688 (Bomber) Defence Training Flt RAF Wyton Spitfire/Hurricane

No 26 (Signals) Group

HQ - Langley Hall, Slough, Buckinghamshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Blackbrook    
North-West Signals Centre controlling: -
  • W/T Station
 RAF Blackbrook
  • Aston Hill
RAF Station Bletchley    
RAF Central Signals Centre administering: -
  • RAF Central Teleprinter Exchange
  • RAF Inter-Command W/T Station
  • W/T Station
  • W/T Station
  • W/T Station
  • W/T Station
  • W/T Station
  • AM Meteorological Centre
  • RAF Signals Office, Whitehall
 RAF Bletchley
  • RAF Bletchley
  • RAF Bletchley
  • Cardington
  • Dagnall
  • Greenford
  • Monks Riseborough
  • Weyhill
  • Dunstable
  • London
RAF Station Cheddington    
C & M Party RAF Cheddington  
RAF Station Chigwell   Satellite of Cheddington
C & M Party RAF Chigwell  
RAF Station Chicksands    
No 362 Wireless Unit controlling: -
  • C & M Party
  • European Signals Centre
  • C & M Party
  • No 5 D/F Station
  • No 6 D/F Station
  • No 8 D/F Station
  • No 2 D/F Station
  • No 4 D/F Station
  • No 3 D/F Station
  • No 1 D/F Station
 RAF Chicksands
  • Bradwell
  • Chicksands 'B'
  • Dilhorne
  • Highbridge
  • Lands End
  • Marston Montgomery
  • Montrose
  • Sutton Valence
  • Waddington
  • Wick
RAF Station Fazakerley    
No 2 Signals Depot RAF Fazakerley  
RAF Station Hinton-in-the-Hedges    
RVSU RAF Hinton-in-the-Hedges  
No 2 Storage Unit RAF Baginton  
RAF Station Honiley administering: -    
  • LRCR D/F Station
  • Consuls Station
  • LRCR D/F Station
  • LRCR D/F Station
  • LRCR D/F Station
  • LRCR D/F Station
  • LRCR D/F Station
  • RAF Station
  • Ballywattick
  • Bushmills
  • Butser
  • Dyce
  • Lagens
  • St Eval
  • Sungerdi (Iceland)
  • Stratford
RAF Station Rudloe Manor    
No 81 Signals Wing administering:
  • Care & Maintenance Party
  • No 2 Western Area Signals Office
  • W/T Station
  • South West Signals Centre
  • No 5 Western Area Signals Office
  • W/T Station
  • No 1 Western Area Signals Office
 RAF Rudloe Manor
  • Bodmin
  • Gloucester
  • Hartlebury
  • Hawthorne
  • Stonehouse
  • Winstone
  • Worcester
RAF Station Stanbridge: -    
  • No 372 Wireless Unit
  • RAF Central Signals Centre administering: -
    • No 2 Temporary Office Building
    • W/T Station
    • W/T Station
    • W/T Station
 RAF Stanbridge
  • Eastcote
  • Greatworth
  • Stoke Hammond
  • Weyhill
RAF Station West Drayton    
No 1 Signals Depot controlling: -
  • Inter-Service Ionesphere Prediction Bureau
  • Central Trade Test Board
  • Iver Detachment
 West Drayton, Middlesex
  • Great Baddow
  • Great Baddow
  • Iver

No 91 (Bomber OTU) Group

HQ - Abingdon, Berkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Abingdon Abingdon, Berkshire  
No 10 OTU RAF Abingdon Wellington III/X
No 91 Group Communication Flt RAF Abingdon Various
RAF Station Stanton Harcourt   Satellite of Abingdon
Care & Maintenance Party RAF Stanton Harcourt  
RAF Station Bruntingthorpe    
No 11 Air Crew Holding Unit RAF Bruntingthorpe  
Power Jets Unit (MAP) RAF Bruntingthorpe  
RAF Station Cottesmore    
No 16 OTU RAF Cottesmore Mosquito/Oxford
RAF Station Langer    
Care & Maintenance Party RAF Langer
RAF Station Finningley    
Bomber Command Instructors' School RAF Finningley  
Central Night Vision Training School RAF Finningley  
RAF Station Worksop   Satellite of Finningley
RAF Station Gamston   Satellite of Finningley
Care & Maintenance Party RAF Gamston  
RAF Station Moreton in Marsh    
No 21 OTU RAF Moreton in Marsh, Wellington III/X
RAF Station North Luffenham RAF North Luffenham  
No 1653 Conversion Unit RAF North Luffenham Lancaster I/III, Beaufighter VI, Mosquito XIX
RAF Station Silverstone    
No 17 OTU RAF Silverstone Wellington III/X
RAF Station Swinderby    
No 1660 Conversion Unit RAF Swinderby Lancaster I/III
RAF Station Wigsley   Satellite of Swinderby
Care & Maintenance Party RAF Wigsley  
RAF Station Wing    
No 26 OTU RAF Wing Wellington III/X/Hurricane/Master
RAF Station Oakley   Satellite of Wing
Care & Maintenance Party RAF Oakley

All OTUs also operated Ansons as well as the operational types shown above.

Source - SD161 (68th Edition) - May 1946

County names used are those in use at the time

[No 1 Group | No 3 Group | No 26 Group | No 91 Group]

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