Interesting Facts
Aircraft from this RAF Station:
- dropped the first 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs and blocked the Saumur Tunnel through which all direct rail communications from the south of France to the Normandy front had to pass.
- attacked the U-boat bases at La Pallice, Lorient and Brest. At Brest the uncompleted hull of the battleship Clemenceau and the cruiser Gueydon were sunk.
- carried out two daring low-level mining operations against the ship canals at Stettin and Königsberg; all Swedish shipping was withdrawn from the Baltic trade. The Tirpitz was sunk in Tromsø fjord on 12 November by aircraft from Woodhall Spa and Bardney
In 1960 Royal Air Force Woodhall Spa became a base for the Bristol Bloodhound, operated by 222 Squadron.
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