Staplehurst
STAPLEHURST: Military airfield
Military user: RAF Fighter Command 11 Group
ALG [Advanced Landing Ground]
401 (RCAF), 411 (RCAF) & 412 (RCAF) Sqdns (Vickers-Supermarine Spitfires)
Note: It appears these Spitfire IX equipped Canadian Squadrons operated here in 1943.
USAAF 354 & 363 Fighter Group
380, 381 & 382 Fighter Squadrons (North American P-51 Mustangs)
Location: S of Ashford to Tonbridge railway, 7nm SSE of Maidstone
Period of operation: 1943 to 1944
Runways: Steel matting: 10/28 1280 grass 01/19 1006 grass
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