RAF Tangmere
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Royal Air Force Tangmere or more simply RAF Tangmere is a former Royal Air Force station located in Tangmere, England, famous for its role in the Battle of Britain.
Aerial photograph of Tangmere airfield, 10 February 1944
Station badge
A line of Supermarine Spitfire Mark VBs of No. 131 Squadron RAF, being prepared for a sweep at Merston, a satellite airfield of Tangmere
German (right) and Commonwealth pilot graves at St Andrew's Church, Tangmere; the large tombstone is a memorial to pilots lost at sea.
Peter Townsend (RAF officer)
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Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend was a British Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier, and author. He served with distinction during the Second World War and, in 1944, was appointed eque
RAF Tangmere
…43 Squadron between 1926–39 In a memoir, Peter Townsend (noted Battle of Britain pilot and, post-war, romantically linked with Princess Margaret), recounts the arrival of 605 Squadron at Tangmere, just before…
Townsend in 1940
Squadron Leader Townsend of No. 85 Squadron RAF exits his Hawker Hurricane at RAF Castle Camps, July 1940
Townsend (second from left) with several other World War II aces, 1968
Headstone of the grave in the churchyard of Saint-Léger-en-Yvelines, France.