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Duxford

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Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, about south of Cambridge. [1]

28 relations: Aerodrome, Battle of Britain, Battle of Britain (film), Big Wing, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Chantry, Congregational church, Domesday Book, Douglas Bader, Duxford Aerodrome, Duxford Chapel, Essex, Hundreds of Cambridgeshire, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Luftwaffe, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Newmarket, Suffolk, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, River Cam, Royal Air Force, Royston, Hertfordshire, South Cambridgeshire, South Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency), St John's Church, Duxford, St Peter's Church, Duxford, The Hundred Parishes, United States Army Air Forces.

Aerodrome

An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither.

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Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

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Battle of Britain (film)

Battle of Britain is a 1969 British Second World War film directed by Guy Hamilton, and produced by Harry Saltzman and S. Benjamin Fisz.

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Big Wing

The Big Wing, also known as a Balbo, was an air fighting tactic proposed during the Battle of Britain by 12 Group commander Air Vice-Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory and Acting Squadron Leader Douglas Bader.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Chantry

A chantry or obiit (Latin: "(s)he has departed"; may also refer to the mass or masses themselves) was a form of trust fund established during the pre-Reformation medieval era in England for the purpose of employing one or more priests to sing a stipulated number of masses for the benefit of the soul of a specified deceased person, usually the donor who had established the chantry in his will, during a stipulated period of time immediately following his death.

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Congregational church

Congregational churches (also Congregationalist churches; Congregationalism) are Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Douglas Bader

Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, (21 February 1910 – 5 September 1982) was a Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War.

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Duxford Aerodrome

Duxford Aerodrome is located south of Cambridge, within the Parish of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England and nearly west of the village.

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Duxford Chapel

Duxford Chapel is a chapel that was once part of the Hospital of St.

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Essex

Essex is a county in the East of England.

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Hundreds of Cambridgeshire

Between Anglo-Saxon times and the 19th century Cambridgeshire was divided for administrative purposes into 17 hundreds, plus the borough of Cambridge.

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Imperial War Museum Duxford

Imperial War Museum Duxford is a branch of the Imperial War Museum near Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Newmarket, Suffolk

Newmarket is a market town in the English county of Suffolk, approximately 65 miles (105 kilometres) north of London.

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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a World War II era fighter aircraft produced by the United States from 1941 through 1945.

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River Cam

The River Cam is the main river flowing through Cambridge in eastern England.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royston, Hertfordshire

Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.

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South Cambridgeshire

South Cambridgeshire is a mostly rural local government district of Cambridgeshire, England with a population of 148,755 at the 2011 Census.

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South Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Cambridgeshire is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Heidi Allen, a Conservative, since May 2015.

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St John's Church, Duxford

St John's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England.

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St Peter's Church, Duxford

St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church in the village of Duxford in Cambridgeshire.

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The Hundred Parishes

The Hundred Parishes is an area of the East of England with no formal recognition or status, albeit that the concept has the blessing of county and district authorities.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxford

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