RAF Matching
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RAF Matching is a former World War II airfield in England.
The airfield was opened in 1944 and during World War II it was used by the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Force Ninth Air Force.
It was used by the USAAF 391st Bomb Group and the 9th Bomb Wing
It was used by the following RAF units: No 3 Group Bomber Command No 38 Group
It was closed in 1945 and returned to agriculture.. It was surveyed late in WWII,and ok'd along with Sculthorpe Airfield in Norfolk, for possible Expansion to a 9000 foot main runway for use by B29 Superfortress aircraft for attacking Nazi Germany,should the war of continued any longer.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Freeman, Roger A., UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now, 1994
- Maurer Maurer, Air Force Combat Units Of World War II, Office of Air Force History, 1983
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