By Reginald Byron, David Coxon
This is often the 1st complete historical past of the Royal Air strength fighter station at Tangmere, West Sussex, from its beginnings within the First global warfare until eventually its premature closure in 1970. In its day, it used to be one of many best-known and strategically most crucial fighter stations within the British Isles. Tangmere first turned well-liked within the Twenties and Thirties for the hugely polished air monitors given on the RAF Pageants at Hendon through the pilots and plane of its resident squadrons, 1 and forty three. at the outbreak of the second one global struggle, 1 Squadron was once the 1st RAF squadron to be despatched to France. With the autumn of France in may perhaps 1940, Tangmere’s squadrons came across themselves correct at the entrance line and through the conflict of england Tangmere was once one of many major fighter stations regularly attractive with the lethal Luftwaffe. Tangmere’s typhoon and Spitfire pilots endured heroically to shield southern England for the subsequent 3 years and became more and more to an offensive position, led by means of Wing Commander Douglas Bader. Squadrons at Tangmere have been seriously excited about Operation Jubilee, the mixed raid on Dieppe, and persevered through the years to annoy the enemy around the Channel with expanding accuracy, ferocity and patience, culminating in a pivotal position in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings.
After the struggle Tangmere settled right into a peacetime regimen, turned domestic to the excessive velocity Flight and the realm Air velocity list used to be damaged there in 1946 and back in 1953 by way of Neville Duke. because the chilly struggle set in Tangmere was once not good located as an interceptor station and by means of the top of 1958 Fighter Command had withdrawn its final squadron. The airdrome was once utilized by indications Command for 6 years or so then served as a house to varied non-flying devices till its decommissioning in 1970. it's now a hugely prized museum with many helpful artifacts and plane. Expertly informed with use of respectable diaries and operations list books it is a long-awaited, entire and conclusive account of a desirable fighter station and its neighboring airfield Ford.
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