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RAF Fairford
51°40′56″N 01°47′24″W RAF Fairford. activated in 1942 as the first USAAF aircraft arrived in the UK.
Currently it is a Forward Operating Base and the only bomber forward operating location in Europe and is predominately used by USAF deployments of the B-1B Lancer, B-2A Spirit and B-52H Stratofortress aircraft taking part in Air Force Global Strike Command's Bomber Task Force missions.
The base also hosts regular deployments of the US Air Force's U-2S Dragon Lady reconnaissance aircraft, operated by the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron.
Base and mission support is provided by the 420th Air Base Squadron, a Geographically Separate Unit of the 501st Combat Support Wing based at RAF Alconbury in
SEE: United States 2. AIR / USAFE / RAF Fairford
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