RAF Gransden Lodge memorial
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RAF Gransden Lodge memorial
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 21 Mar 2020
Beside the road adjacent to the mill is this memorial to those who served and flew from Gransden Lodge airfield in WW2. Named on the memorial are 405 (Vancouver) Squadron RCAF, The Pathfinder Force of no. 8 (PFF) Group, who marked targets for Bomber Command 1942 - 1945. Gransden Lodge opened in April 1942 as an operational RAF Bomber Command station with three concrete runways. At the end of 1945 the airfield was transferred to Transport Command but the last operational squadron was disbanded in February 1946. The RAF station closed in 1955 and it was also used for some motor races, including the first major postwar motor race in the UK on 15 June 1946.
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Image Location
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52.183063
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-0.133471