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Heanton Punchardon: towards Chivenor airfield A field of ripening barley with RMB Chivenor beyond. The airfield retains its runways largely in square SS4934 and control tower but no helicopters are visible: no 22 Squadron search and rescue is or was based here. Chivenor was the base where the Leigh Light was brought into use by Coastal Command in the U-Boat offensive in World War II. Squadrons of Vickers Wellingtons were stationed here equipped with a searchlight used at night to locate German submarines recharging their batteries on the surface in the Bay of Biscay. Today the complex is a Royal Marines base. Beyond the airfield, the Taw estuary
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| Author | Martin Bodman |
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