Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
Bomber Command - February 1948
[No 1 Group | No 3 Group]
Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
Bomber Command Communication Flight | Booker |
HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Binbrook | ||
No 9 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
No 12 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
No 101 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
No 617 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Binbrook | Lincoln II |
RAF Station Coningsby, | ||
No 109 Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito B 35 |
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito B 35 |
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Coningsby | Mosquito III/B XVI/Anson I |
RAF Station East Kirkby | Satellite of Coningsby | |
RAF Station Spilsby | Satellite of Coningsby | |
No 1 Group Communications Flight | RAF Finningley | Station in FTC |
RAF Station Hemswell | ||
No 83 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln II |
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln II |
No 100 Sqn | RAF Hemswell | Lincoln II |
No 6 GCA Unit | RAF Hemswell | |
RAF Station Sturgate | Satellite of Hemswell | |
RAF Station Lindholme | ||
No 230 Operational Conversion Unit | RAF Lindholme | Lancaster I (FE), Mosquito NF 30 |
RAF Station Scampton | ||
No 1 Group Major Servicing Unit | RAF Scampton | |
RAF Station Waddington | ||
No 50 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln II |
No 57 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln II |
No 61 Sqn | RAF Waddington | Lincoln II |
RAF Station Faldingworth | Satellite of Waddington | |
RAF Station Metheringham | Satellite of Waddington |
HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk
Unit | Location/Address | Notes |
RAF Station Marham | ||
Central Bomber Establishment (Cadre) | RAF Marham | Various |
RAF Station Little Snoring | Satellite of Marham | |
RAF Station North Pickenham | Satellite of Marham | |
RAF Station Sculthorpe | Satellite of Marham | |
C & M Party | RAF Sculthorpe | |
RAF Station Mildenhall | ||
No 3 Group Communications Flight | RAF Mildenhall | Anson/Proctor |
No 3 Group Major Servicing Unit | RAF Mildenhall | |
RAF Station Lakenheath | Satellite of Mildenhall | |
RAF Station Stradishall | ||
No 35 (Madras Presidency) Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 115 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 149 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 207 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Stradishall | Lancaster B I (FE) |
RAF Station Chedburgh | Satellite of Stradishall | |
RAF Station Lavenham | Satellite of Stradishall | |
RAF Station Upwood | ||
No 7 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 49 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 148 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
No 214 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Upwood | Lancaster B I (FE) |
RAF Station Mepal | Satellite of Upwood | |
RAF Station Polebrook | Satellite of Upwood | |
RAF Station Woodbridge | ||
Emergency Runway | RAF Woodbridge | |
RAF Station Wyton | ||
No 15 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
No 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
No 90 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
No 138 Sqn (Cadre) | RAF Wyton | Lincoln II |
RAF Station Gransdon Lodge | Satellite of Wyton | |
RAF Station Moldsworth | Satellite of Wyton |
Source - SD161 (89th Edition) - February 1948
County names used are those in use at the time
[No 1 Group | No 3 Group]
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