10th Air Depot Group
Group
Constituted as 10th Air Depot Group, 30 Dec 1941 Activated, 5 Jan 1942, Redesignated 10th Air Depot, 1 Jun 1946 Inactivated, 17 Oct 1948.
Zeals
Military site : airfield
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Aerial photograph of Zeals airfield looking south east, the control tower, technical site and blister hangars are at the top, 4 November 1946. Photograph taken by No. 58 Squadron, sortie number RAF/CPE/UK/1821. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
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Aerial photograph of Zeals airfield looking south east, the control tower, technical site and blister hangars are at the top, 4 November 1946. Photograph taken by No. 58 Squadron, sortie number RAF/CPE/UK/1821. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
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Aerial photograph of Zeals airfield looking south east, the control tower, technical site and blister hangars are at the top, 24 March 1944. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/NLA/80. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
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Aerial photograph of Zeals airfield looking south east, the control tower, technical site and blister hangars are at the top, 24 March 1944. Photograph taken by No. 544 Squadron, sortie number RAF/NLA/80. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
Zeals was set up as a grass Advanced Landing Ground for the RAF in 1941-42, and allocated to the Eighth Air Force in 1942 but not used. Handed to the Ninth Air Force, it was briefly a Tactical Air Depot before being handed back to the RAF then Royal Navy. It was closed in 1946 and returned to original landowners.
Service
Units
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2058th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon
Platoon
Four firefighters and the commanding officer were killed as a result of exploding aircraft on January 1, 1945.
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:02:18 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994) Roger Freeman, Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 2001) Chris Ashworth, Action Stations 5: Military Airfields of the South-West (Cambridge, 1982) |
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