RAF Brenzett Traditional Cache
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RAF Brenzett was a Royal Air Force station during World War II. It was chosen for an advanced landing ground in July 1942, and construction work on the 300-acre site, of flat marshland, commenced in 1943, it was due to open on 1 March, but was not ready for occupation until later that year, when the airfield opened as RAF Brenzett, part of RAF Fighter Command, on the 14 September 1943 with two Sommerfield Track runways. The locals referred to the airfield as Ivychurch after the nearest village. The airfield eventually had five blister hangars for the aircraft but most of the personnel were housed in a tented camp.
The first unit to occupy the airfield was 122 Squadron, with Supermarine Spitfires in August 1943, who used it to relieve pressure on their home base at RAF Kingsnorth five miles away. The airfield was not used to support the D-Day landings. Although in July 1944, a Mustang wing (No. 133 Polish Fighter Wing), with three squadrons, was based mainly on anti-flying bomb patrols.
The United States Army Air Corps designated the airfield Station Number 438. The main American unit were, Battery C 635 AAA (Anti-aircraft Artillery), Automatic Weapons Bn, IX Air Defence Command.
The Mustang wing left in October 1944 and the airfield closed later that year on 13 December, when it returned to agricultural use.
In 1972. The Brenzett Aeronautical Museum, a military and aviation museum, was opened on the site in buildings formerly occupied by the Women's Land Army. Please log your visit, if not dont log it online thanks.
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