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RAF Dunholme Lodge

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In November 1944 flying operations ceased due to the proximity of other stations which did not allow night flying. At the end of the war 120 Lancasters had been lost on operations from Dunholme Lodge.
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From 1948 the site was host to motorcycle and car racing until 1959 when the base was reopened as an active RAF station.
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The grass airfield was first used by the Royal Air Force during 1941 and 1942 for use by
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Bits of the runways still exist and the site is now used for farming.
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Air Bomber Training Flight, No. 5 Group (August – October 1942)
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until it was disbanded and the station finally closed in 1964.
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from the IBCC Digital Archive at the University of Lincoln.
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was opened in 1952 on part of the disused domestic site.
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On re-opening in 1959, the airfield became a site for
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Dunholme
Lincolnshire
RAF Dunholme Lodge is located in Lincolnshire
53°17′28″N 000°30′19″W / 53.29111°N 0.50528°W / 53.29111; -0.50528
Royal Air Force station
Ministry of Defence
Royal Air Force
RAF Bomber Command
No. 1 Group RAF
No. 5 Group RAF
European theatre of World War II
Cold War
AMSL
Direction
Royal Air Force
station
Welton
Dunholme
Lincolnshire
England
Handley Page Hampden
RAF Scampton
RAF Bomber Command
44 Squadron
Avro Lancaster
RAF Waddington
RAF Spilsby
William Farr School
Bristol Bloodhound

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