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RAF Bognor - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 50°47′15″N 000°42′30″W / 50.78750°N 0.70833°W

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RAF Bognor

Bognor, West Sussex in England

RAF Bognor

Shown within West Sussex

RAF Bognor

RAF Bognor (the United Kingdom)

Coordinates

50°47′15″N 000°42′30″W / 50.78750°N 0.70833°W

Type

RAF advanced landing ground

Code

OG^[1]

Site information

Owner

Air Ministry

Operator

Royal Air Force

Controlled by

RAF Second Tactical Air Force
* No. 83 Group RAF
* No. 84 Group RAF

Site history

Built

1943

Built by

Royal Canadian Engineers

In use

June 1943-January 1945^[2]

Battles/wars

European theatre of World War II

Airfield information

Elevation

7 metres (23 ft)^[1] AMSL

Runways
Direction	Length and surface
05/23	1,280 metres (4,199 ft) Sommerfeld tracking
07/25	1,463 metres (4,800 ft) Sommerfeld tracking

Royal Air Force Bognor or more simply RAF Bognor (also known as Bognor Advanced Landing Ground (A.L.G.)) is a former Royal Air Force advanced landing ground 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bognor, West Sussex, England.^[3]

History

Survey work on the site was undertaken in "mid-1942", with construction beginning in early 1943, completed by the Royal Canadian Engineers.^[4] Bognor was one of 82 planned Operation Hadrian sites planned with only 26 being built. The original budget for the site was £20,500.^[5] The airfield became operational on 1 June 1943 with two intersecting Sommerfield track runways. The site was under the control of RAF Tangmere located four miles further north.

The site was originally a training site for aircrews to practise operating with few facilities, however, in Autumn 1943, extra over blister hangars were installed. These provided shelter for most aircraft that were stationed at Bognor, little accommodation was provided for the aircrews who lived in tented camps. The site was used as a forward staging base for a number of fighter and ground attack units for the D-Day assault, however, these soon moved to back to Tangmere and were replaced by 83 Group and 1310 Flight. 1310 flew Ansons from Bognor in an air ambulance and medical supply capacity to the advancing forces on the French coastline.^[6]^[3]

83 Group left the site in late September 1944 and need for the airfield ceased to exist. Runway removal works were carried out during the Autumn of 1944 and by early 1945, the site had been returned to its original owners. Parts of the site have now been built over by the expanding Bognor Regis or returned to farmland with few noticeable remnants of the airfield remaining.

Units

Squadron	Dates	Aircraft
No. 19 Squadron RAF	6 Jun 1943 – 2 Jul 1943	Supermarine Spitfire^[7]
No. 66 Squadron RAF	31 Mar 1944 – 22 Jun 1944	Supermarine Spitfire^[7]
No. 122 Squadron RAF	1 Jun 1943 – 1 Jul 1943	Supermarine Spitfire^[7]
No. 331 Squadron RAF	31 Mar 1944 – 22 Jun 1944	Supermarine Spitfire^[7]
No. 332 Squadron RAF	31 Mar 1944 – 22 Jun 1944	Supermarine Spitfire^[7]
No. 602 Squadron RAF	1 Jun 1943 – 1 Jul 1943	Supermarine Spitfire^[7]
No. 1310 Flight RAF	25 Jun 1944 – 21 Jul 1944	Avro Anson
No. 83 (Composite) Group Support Unit	25 Jun 1944 – 25 Sep 1944	Supermarine Spitfire, Mustang IV, Typhoon

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References

Citations

^ ^a ^b Falconer 2012, p. 54.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Bognor (Landplane)". Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust UK. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b Delve, Ken (7 August 2005). The Military Airfields of Britain: Southern England - Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex (in English and English). The Crowood Press. pp. 44–45. ISBN 1-86126-729-0. OL 8629602M. Wikidata Q105271144.
^ chichesterpost.co.uk (31 May 2019). "Changing Times - Farmland became bustling wartime airfield". Bognor Regis Post. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
^ "Advanced Landing Ground, Chalcraft Lane - Sylvia Endacott". Sussex Views Magazine. 12 April 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
^ Cipirska, Isabella (20 May 2019). "Watch a Chinook helicopter land in Bognor for 75th anniversary event". Bognor Regis Observer. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Jefford 1988, p. 00.

Bibliography

Falconer, J (2012). RAF Airfields of World War 2. UK: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-349-5.
Jefford, C.G. (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6.

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