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Royal Air Force Thurleigh or more simply RAF Thurleigh is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles north of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. Thurleigh was transferred to the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force on 9 December 1942 and designated Station 111, and used for heavy bomber operations against Nazi Germany.
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  • 1. Thurleigh Farm Centre Thurleigh
    Royal Air Force Thurleigh or more simply RAF Thurleigh is a former Royal Air Force station located 5 miles north of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. Thurleigh was transferred to the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force on 9 December 1942 and designated Station 111, and used for heavy bomber operations against Nazi Germany.
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  • 2. 306th Bombardment Group Museum Thurleigh
    The 306th Flying Training Group is a unit of the United States Air Force, assigned to Air Education and Training Command . The group is stationed at the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The 306 FTG is the airmanship training unit of the USAFA. The group replaced the 34th Operations Group in 2004. The designation 306th was deliberately selected by the historian of AETC to connect the training mission of the current group with its relationship to the book and movie Twelve O'Clock High.During World War II, the group, as the 306th Bombardment Group, was the first operational bombardment group in the VIII Bomber Command. It was stationed at RAF Thurleigh, England from 6 September 1942 until 25 December 1945, the longest tenure at one station for any one Eighth Ai...
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