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English: Heanton Punchardon: towards Chivenor airfield A field of ripening barley with RMB Chivenor beyond. The airfield retains its runways – largely in square SS4934 – and control tower but no helicopters are visible: no 22 Squadron search and rescue is or was based here. Chivenor was the base where the Leigh Light was brought into use by Coastal Command in the U-Boat offensive in World War II. Squadrons of Vickers Wellingtons were stationed here equipped with a searchlight used at night to locate German submarines recharging their batteries on the surface in the Bay of Biscay. Today the complex is a Royal Marines base. Beyond the airfield, the Taw estuary
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Camera location51° 05′ 57″ N, 4° 08′ 11″ W  Heading=225° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
Object location51° 05′ 55″ N, 4° 08′ 14″ W  Heading=225° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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2 August 2007

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