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RAF Bassingbourn
RAF Bassingbourn. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Royal Air Force Bassingbourn or more simply RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 miles (18 km) south west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

During the Second World War it served first as an RAF station and then as a bomber airfield of the Eighth Air Force, of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It remains the home of the Tower Museum Bassingbourn.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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