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Military airforce buffs, need to pick your brains

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Can anyone identify these airbases from the photos given pls.

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Marham had a Victor gate guardian
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Middle one is RAF Valley
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The Victor in the car park is RAF Marham...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/RAF+M ... 6?hl=en-GB
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slowsider wrote: Tue Nov 24, 2020 8:44 pm Marham had a Victor gate guardian
Yep, it's the image off Google earth. :thumbup:
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RAF Spadeadam for the top one...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Raf+S ... -2.6018241
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You're all gentlemanly awesome 👍
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I know one is Gibraltar but what's the other?? Or can someone post where they look because I can't find them. Tia
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There isn't that many RAF bases anymore.

They're all listed on the RAF website.

Just drop the names into Google maps and you'll soon find them.

Bottom one is deffo Gibraltar, it's where I got married :)
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Post by Mr. Dazzle »

Top one is Kinloss.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kinlo ... 7703?hl=en

My FiL was a career RAF man and had several books along the lines of "Lincolnshire Bomber Bases of WW2" and "RAF Bases of the Cold War" in the bog :D
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