RAF Ramsbury
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RAF Ramsbury is a former World War II airfield in England. The field is located 4 miles E of Marlborough in Wiltshire.
The airfield was opened in 1942 and was used by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force Ninth Air Force. It was also known as USAAF Station 469, Station Code: RY.
After World War II, the airfield was closed in 1946.
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[edit] USAAF use
[edit] 64th Troop Carrier Group
[edit] 434th Troop Carrier Group
[edit] 435th Troop Carrier Group
[edit] 437th Troop Carrier Group
[edit] RAF use
[edit] Postwar use
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- Freeman, Roger A., UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now, 1994
- Ramsbury Airfield at www.controltowers.co.uk
- Maurer Maurer, Air Force Combat Units Of World War II, Office of Air Force History, 1983
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