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Bomber Command - April 1953


[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

Command HQ - High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
Bomber Command Communication Flight Booker Station in Home Command

 

No 1 (Bomber) Group

HQ - Bawtry Hall, Bawtry, Doncaster, West Yorkshire

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Bassingbourn    
No 231 Operational Conversion Unit RAF Bassingbourn Canberra/Meteor
RAF Station Binbrook    
No 9 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 12 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 50/103 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 101 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
No 617 Sqn RAF Binbrook Canberra
Bomber Command Acceptance and Modification Unit RAF Binbrook  
No 1 Group Communications Flight RAF Finningley Station in FTC
RAF Station Hemswell    
No 83/150 Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln B2
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln B2
No 109/105 Sqn RAF Hemswell Canberra
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF Hemswell Canberra
No 199 Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln/Mosquito
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight RAF Hemswell Meteor/Canberra
No 112 Signals Unit High Street, Darsham GH, station in Fighter Command
Bomber Command Bombing School RAF Lindholme Lincoln B2
RAF Station Scampton    
No 10 Sqn RAF Scampton Canberra
No 999 Signals Unit Staxton Wold GH, station in Fighter Command
RAF Station Waddington    
No 49/102 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2
No 61/144 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2
No 100 Sqn RAF Waddington Lincoln B2
No 459 Signals Unit RAF Wythall GH, station in No 90 Group

 

No 3 Group

HQ - RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk

 
Unit Location/Address Notes
RAF Station Brize Norton   Administered by USAF
No 388 Signals Unit RAF Church Lawford MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Coningsby    
No 15/21 Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
No 57/104 Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
No 149 Sqn RAF Coningsby Washington B1
No 53 Signals Unit RAF Coningsby MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Fairford   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Greenham Common   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Lakenheath   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Marham    
No 35 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
No 90 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
No 115/218 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
No 207 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
Washington Conversion Unit RAF Marham Washington B1
RAF Station Mildenhall    
No 3 Group Communications Flight RAF Mildenhall Anson/Proctor
RAF Wordwell   Satellite, Mildenhall, allocated to USAF
RAF Station Molesworth   Administered by USAF
Joint Air Photographic Intelligence Unit (UK) RAF Nuneham Park Functionally controlled by AM (ACAS (I))
RAF Station Sculthorpe   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Upper Heyford   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Upwood    
No 7/76 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
No 148 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
No 214 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln B2
Radar Reconnaissance Flight RAF Upwood Lincoln
RAF Station Wimpole Park   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Wittering    
RAF Station Wyton    
No 58 Sqn RAF Wyton Mosquito
No 82 Sqn RAF Wyton Lancaster
No 540 Sqn RAF Wyton Canberra

 

Bomber Command, Inactive Stations

 
Inactive Station Parent Station Status
Abbots Ripton Wyton S
Barford St John Upper Heyford S
Croughton Upper Heyford R
Deenethorpe Wittering S
Desborough Wittering R
Downham Market Marham S
Fiskerton Scampton S
Glatton Upwood S
Gransden Lodge Bassingbourn R
Grimsby Binbrook R
Kelstern Binbrook S
Kimbolton Wyton S
Mepal Upwood S
Metheringham Waddington R
Middleton Stoney Upper Heyford R
Newmarket Mildenhall S
Polebrook Upwood R
Spilsby Coningsby R
Steeple Morden Bassingbourn R
Sutton Bridge Marham R
Warboys Upwood S
Witchford Wyton S

S = Surplus to long-term requirements

R = Retention is currently required

Source - SD161 (151st Edition) - April 1953

County names used are those in use at the time

[HQ | No 1 Group | No 3 Group | Inactive Stations]

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