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Bomber Command - February 1954


[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
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
No 1 Group Communications Flight RAF Finningley Station in FTC
RAF Station Hemswell    
No 83/150 Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln
No 97 (Straits Settlement) Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln
No 109/105 Sqn RAF Hemswell Canberra
No 139 (Jamaica) Sqn RAF Hemswell Canberra
No 199 Sqn RAF Hemswell Lincoln/Mosquito
No 112 Signals Unit High Street, Darsham GH, station in Fighter Command
Bomber Command Acceptance and Modification Unit RAF Lindholme Canberra/Lincoln
Bomber Command Bombing School RAF Lindholme Lincoln
RAF Station Scampton    
No 10 Sqn RAF Scampton Canberra
No 18 Sqn RAF Scampton Canberra
No 21 Sqn RAF Scampton Canberra
No 27 Sqn RAF Scampton Canberra
No 999 Signals Unit Staxton Wold GH, station in Fighter Command
C & M Party RAF Waddington  
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 Alconbury   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Brize Norton   Administered by USAF
No 388 Signals Unit RAF Church Lawford MRPU, station in Maintenance Command
RAF Station Coningsby    
No 15 Sqn RAF Coningsby Canberra
No 40 Sqn RAF Coningsby Canberra
No 44/55 (Rhodesia) Sqn RAF Coningsby Canberra
No 57/104 Sqn RAF Coningsby Canberra
No 149 Sqn RAF Coningsby Canberra
No 53 Signals Unit RAF Coningsby MRPU
Joint School of Photographic Interpretation RNAS Culham  
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 Canberra
No 115/218 Sqn RAF Marham Canberra
No 207 Sqn RAF Marham Washington B1
Bomber Command Jet Conversion Flight RAF Marham Meteor
RAF Station Mildenhall   Administered by USAF
No 3 Group Communications Flight RAF Mildenhall Anson/Chipmunk
RAF Wordwell   Satellite, Mildenhall
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 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln
No 148 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln
No 214 Sqn RAF Upwood Lincoln
No 230 Operational Conversation Unit RAF Upwood Lincoln
Chesil Beach Range Unit Weymouth (Riaipole Lane)  
RAF Station Wimpole Park   Administered by USAF
RAF Station Wittering    
No 49/102 Sqn RAF Wittering Lincoln
No 61/144 Sqn RAF Wittering Lincoln
No 76 Sqn RAF Wittering Canberra
No 100 Sqn RAF Wittering Lincoln
Bomber Command Armament School RAF Wittering  
RAF Station Wyton    
No 58 Sqn RAF Wyton Canberra
No 82 Sqn RAF Wyton Canberra
No 540 Sqn RAF Wyton Canberra
No 1323 Flight RAF Wyton Canberra
Radar Reconnaissance Flight RAF Wyton Lincoln/Canberra

 

Bomber Command, Inactive Stations

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

Source - SD161 (161st Edition) - February 1954

County names used are those in use at the time

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

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