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moved into Flowerdown which remained as a wireless station until 1956. It was never an airfield but it was bombed twice in one week.
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moved from Farnborough to Flowerdown, later RAF Flowerdown in 1918. From April 1926 the Electrical and Wireless School, part of
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with staff working 12-hour shifts listening to Morse code which was then used to decipher the German codes.
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Former Royal Air Force station in Hampshire, England
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Winchester
Hampshire
RAF Flowerdown is located in Hampshire
51°03′36″N 1°20′42″W / 51.060°N 1.345°W / 51.060; -1.345
Listening station
Ministry of Defence
Royal Air Force
Royal Air Force
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Hampshire
England
Royal Flying Corps
School for Wireless Operators
23 Group
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Second World War
Bletchley Park
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