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RAF Pembroke Dock

Military installations closed in 1959Military installations established in 1930Pembroke DockRoyal Air Force stations in WalesSeaplane bases in the United Kingdom
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939 1945. CH1152
Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939 1945. CH1152

Royal Air Force Pembroke Dock, or more simply RAF Pembroke Dock, was a Royal Air Force Seaplane and Flying boat station located at Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales. The Royal Navy contingent left in 1926 with the Royal Air Force occupying the site from 1 January 1930. During the initial stages of World War II, it became the home of two Dutch flying boats and their squadron personnel as well as hosting RAF, Fleet Air Arm, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force and United States naval aircrews. It became the largest Flying Boat station in the world and at one point during the Second World War it was host to 99 aircraft.The station badge showed a Manx Shearwater bird on one of the many islands that lie off the eastern Pembrokeshire coastline. The motto was in Welsh; Gwylio'r gorllewin o'r awyr which translates into English as "To watch the west from the air". The badge was approved and issued in January 1948.

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RAF Pembroke Dock
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Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 1939 1945. CH1152
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