Royal Air Force Driffield or RAF Driffield is a former Royal Air Force station in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. It lies about 2 miles (3km) south-west of Driffield and 11 miles (18km) north-west of Beverley. It is now operated by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, as the Driffield Training Area.
Royal Air Force base in Yorkshire, England
RAF Driffield RAF Eastburn Driffield Training Area
Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk Vs of No. 102 Squadron RAF being prepared for a leaflet-dropping sortie at Driffield, Yorkshire, 7 March 1940
The site was first opened in 1918 by the Royal Air Force under the name of RAF Eastburn, and closed in 1920.[2] In 1935 a new airfield was built, initially training bomber crews. In 1977 the site was turned over to the British Army for use as a driving school, and was renamed Alamein Barracks, a satellite to Normandy Barracks of the Defence School of Transport at Leconfield.[3]
The station was the initial posting of Leonard Cheshire[4] VC, who was at that time a member of 102 Squadron.[5]
On 15 August 1940 there was a German air raid on the airfield. Casualties included the first fatality in the Women's Royal Air Force.[6][7]
On 1 August 1959, the station was armed with PGM-17 Thor ballistic missiles, which were subsequently decommissioned by April 1963.[8]
Chorlton, Martyn (2014). Forgotten aerodromes of World War I: British military aerodromes, seaplane stations, flying-boat and airship stations to 1920. Manchester: Crecy. p.43. ISBN9780859791816.
"RAF Driffield". Hull & East Riding at War. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
"No. 35005". The London Gazette. 3 December 1940. p. 6862
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