Former RFC/USAAF Harling Road
United Kingdom /
England /
East Harling /
World
/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ East Harling
World / United Kingdom / England
Second World War 1939-1945, First World War 1914-1918, abandoned / shut down, RAF - Royal Air Force, historical layer / disappeared object, United States Army
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No.10 Training Depot Station
Harling Road
The Royal Flying Corps was to come to Harling Road (Roudham) in 1916. The airfield covered 245 acres of which 30 acres was occupied by buildings such as 3 coupled and 1 single hangars. No.51 Sqdr. was the first to arrive a home defence unit defending the UK against the Zeppelin threat. 94 Sqdrn was formed here in 1917. The airfield remaind operational as (RAF Harling Road) until March 1920.
Then the camp at Roundham was re-activated during the Second World War when the Black American General Service, enginneers and quartermaster troops occupied the site, feeding and supplying the many USAAF airfields in the surrounding area.
www.norfolk-airfields.co.uk/harling.html
Harling Road
The Royal Flying Corps was to come to Harling Road (Roudham) in 1916. The airfield covered 245 acres of which 30 acres was occupied by buildings such as 3 coupled and 1 single hangars. No.51 Sqdr. was the first to arrive a home defence unit defending the UK against the Zeppelin threat. 94 Sqdrn was formed here in 1917. The airfield remaind operational as (RAF Harling Road) until March 1920.
Then the camp at Roundham was re-activated during the Second World War when the Black American General Service, enginneers and quartermaster troops occupied the site, feeding and supplying the many USAAF airfields in the surrounding area.
www.norfolk-airfields.co.uk/harling.html
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 52°26'41"N 0°54'20"E
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- Former RFC/RAF Thetford 12 km
- Former RAF Great Ashfield - USAAF Station 155 20 km
- former RAF Thorpe Abbots 20 km
- Former RAF Rattlesden - USAAF Station 126 30 km
- Former RAF Bungay (aka Flixton) 34 km
- Former RAF Stradishall 44 km
- Former RAF Wormingford - USAAF Station 159 56 km
- Former RAF Debden - USAAF Station 356 67 km
- Former RAF Great Dunmow 74 km
- Former RAF Snetterton Heath 3.8 km
- Military Zone 5.3 km
- Former RAF Fersfield (Winfarthing) 10 km
- Redgrave and Lopham Fen 10 km
- Fakenham Wood 10 km
- Stanford Training Area (StanTA) 13 km
- RAF Barnham Camp 14 km
- former RAF Shepherds Grove 14 km
- Thetford Rifle Range 15 km
- RAF Honington 15 km