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Royal Air Force Great Ashfield or more simply RAF Great Ashfield is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Bury St. Edmunds and south of Great Ashfield, Suffolk, England. Great Ashfield Airfield is still in private use although much reduced in size. It was originally a Royal Flying Corps grass landing strip on this site in World War I, and before the USAAF arrived the RAF had been using it for training, during that period it was known as RAF Elmswell. ==United States Army Air Forces use== Great Ashfield was re-built for the USAAF in 1942 and assigned designation Station 155. The first aircraft to land on the station is believed to have been a battle-damaged B-26 Marauder returning from a raid over the Netherlands on 17 May 1943. USAAF Station Units assigned to RAF Great Ashfield were:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Great Ashfield )〕 * 455th Sub-Depot * 18th Weather Squadron * 31st Station Complement Squadron Regular Army Station Units included: * 1152d Quartermaster Company * 1249th Military Police Company * 1735th Ordnance Supply & Maintenance Company * 877th Chemical Company (Air Operations) * 2036th Engineer Fire Fighting Platoon 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAF Great Ashfield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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