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Help identifying an RAF base in Kent

16 Apr 2011 13:33 - 18 Mar 2018 00:08 #1 by PJK
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Hello all,

1st post here and would be grateful for any help in identifying which R.A.F base this is referring to:

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"between the a.m (Air Ministry) & R.A.F *****"

Its an extract from a letter dated 1941 and I believe that it could be referring to an RAF base on the North Kent coast but I can't fathom out which one.

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16 Apr 2011 13:41 #2 by Peter Kirk
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It looks to me like RAF UNITS
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)

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18 Apr 2011 03:38 #3 by PETERTHEEATER
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I agree with that; Units; so non-specific.

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25 Apr 2011 18:38 #4 by PJK
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Thanks for the help chaps. "Units" now looks obvious and fits in with context of the letter.

Now for the hard part...identifying the RAF Unit or Units involved!

Kind Rgds

Peter

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26 Apr 2011 06:56 #5 by PETERTHEEATER
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North Kent coast really points at Manston; there was not another RAF Unit in that area as far as I know.

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26 Apr 2011 16:05 #6 by canberra
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Didnt Dover have an Air Sea Rescue unit?

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26 Apr 2011 17:50 #7 by John Anderson
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Somewhere on the Isle of Sheppey? Eastchurch or Leysdown perhaps?

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26 Apr 2011 21:38 #8 by Robin
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I think that RAF Gravesend could be the most Northerly base in Kent.

Robin.
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27 Apr 2011 05:34 #9 by PETERTHEEATER
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I was reacting to the OP's statement that it was/is a North Kent coast unit.

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27 Apr 2011 07:53 #10 by Peter Kirk
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I feel a definition of coast debate looming :)

According to the Coast TV series anything tidal is coastal, although to say Teddington is on the coast stretches the normally accepted view of coast. Gravesend did have a beach from which people bathed also a promenade.
I suppose the question is what was accepted as coast at the time of the original entry. I don't know the answer to that one.
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