Remains of RAF Angle

 Second World War 1939-1945, RAF - Royal Air Force

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Sited on a ridge above the village on the western extremity of the peninsula, this was one of the remotest wartime airfields in Britain. It opened in 1941 following Luftwaffe attacks on the oil installations at Pembroke Dock, and began life as a fighter station belonging to No 10 Group, Fighter Command.

A succession of squadrons passed through Angle, flying Supermarine Spitfires, Westland Whirlwinds and Hawker Hurricanes on convoy protection duties and defensive patrols. For a short time in 1943 the airfield passed to the Royal Navy and it was during this period that history was made when a Sunderland flying boat from Pembroke Dock made a successful landing on the airfield after sustaining hull damage during a sea rescue.

The airfield returned to RAF charge in September 1943, becoming the home of the Coastal Command Development Unit which tested weapons and equipment for use against the German UBoats.

The airfield’s wartime role ended in January 1945 and the one T2 hangar and four ‘Blisters’ are long gone. Many of the remaining buildings were removed in the 1980s, but a few buildings are still standing in dispersed sites. These include the group of huts at Hardings Hill and Jefferson Walls (on private land but visible from the road) where the airfield canteen was situated. Just off the lane down towards East Angle can still be seen the building which housed the airfield’s emergency generator.