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#SP281 RAF Marham print

RAF Marham print
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£10.00 €11.48 $13.63
43.8 cm x 29.2 cm
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ZM168
809 Sqn; 617 Sqn; 207 Sqn
RAF Marham
UK - Air Force
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Squadron Prints Lithograph No. SP281 - RAF Marham.

Royal Air Force Marham is home to the UK’s Lightning Air Wing, which serves under the command of No. 1 Group within Air Command.  Jointly staffed by Royal Air Force and Royal Navy personnel, the Lightning Air Wing currently comprises three F-35B squadrons, Air Engineering Wing and the Lightning Operations Centre. RAF Marham Air Base, which serves under the command of No. 2 Group, provides all airfield operations and base support functions for the Lightning Air Wing and other resident units including No 3 Force Protection Wing, No 6 RAF Police Squadron, No 93 (Expeditionary Armament) Squadron and Station Shared Services. No. 617 (The Dambusters) Squadron was the RAF’s first F-35B squadron, reformed in April 2018 having trained at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina. 617 Squadron was originally formed in 1943 for the specific task of attacking three major dams which provided water and power to one of Germany’s major industrial regions. Under the codename Operation CHASTISE, the Squadron’s specially modified Avro Lancaster B MkIIIs delivered Barnes Wallis’ “bouncing bomb” to its intended targets on the night of 16 May 1943, breaching two out of the three dams and causing catastrophic flooding to the Ruhr valley. The first 617 Squadron F-35B arrived at RAF Marham on 6 June 2018 and the Squadron was declared combat ready on 10 January 2019. The second of RAF Marham’s F-35B squadrons is No. 207 Squadron and is a direct descendant of No. 7 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service, which pioneered night bombing techniques in the First World War. Formed on 1 April 1918, the Squadron flew 4563 missions over Germany (suffering 954 fatalities) in Manchester and Lancaster bombers during the Second World War, before moving to RAF Marham in the 1950s as part of the “V Force” equipped with the Valiant. On 1 August 2019, No. 207 Squadron was stood up as the United Kingdom’s F-35 Lightning Operational Conversion Unit. No. 809 Naval Air Squadron reformed as the Lightning Force’s second operational squadron in December 2023. First formed in January 1941 flying the Fairey Fulmar, No. 809 Squadron flew from HMS VICTORIOUS, ATTACKER and STALKER during the Second World War on operations in occupied Norway, the Mediterranean, and the Far East. Throughout the Cold War, No. 809 Squadron operated the Blackburn Buccaneer from RAF Lossiemouth, HMS HERMES and RAF Honington, before re-equipping with the Sea Harrier FRS Mk.1 and returning to HMS HERMES to take part in the Falklands War in 1982. 

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