Royal Air Force Merston or more simply RAF Merston is a former

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located in

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, England.

History

RAF Merston was built In May 1941, as a grass airfield satellite to the neighbouring

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. The site was used by RAF fighter squadrons from May 1941 to August 1942. The site briefly closed for redevelopment in from August 1942 until its reopening in May 1943 as an RAF fighter station. It was used by the

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as a storage site for surplus war equipment until it closed on 13 November 1945.

Units

The following squadrons were here at some point: Units;

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Merston Merston is a small village, an Anglican parish and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Oving, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It lies just south of the A259 road southeast of Chichester.Ordnance Survey History M ...