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RAF Polebrook USAAF Station 110  .png) | |||||||||||||||||||
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 RAF Polebrook - August, 1948 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Air Ministry | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force 1941-1942, 1959-1963 United States Army Air Forces 1942-1945 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Oundle, Northamptonshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||
| Built | 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||
| In use | 1941-1948,1959-1963 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 230 ft / 70 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°28′08″N 000°23′25″W / 52.46889°N 0.39028°W | ||||||||||||||||||
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.svg)  RAF Polebrook Location in Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-south-east of Oundle, at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England. The airfield was built on Rothschild estate land starting in August 1940.
It was from Polebrook that the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force carried out its first heavy bomb group (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress) combat mission on 17 August 1942, and from which Major Clark Gable flew combat missions in 1943.