Rudloe Manor
Military site
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FRE 10278
A 9th Air Force soldier examines an unexploded 1800kg bomb nicknamed "Satan" that landed near Rudloe Manor airbase. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'F451 => Could mean Station 451 = Rudloe Manor used by 9AF.'
Roger Freeman Collection
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
It was the manor house which was was probably used as Headquarters Ninth Tactical Command. Bath Stone was quarried from here leaving a vast set of underground caverns which were used by the military since the 1930s. Located next to RAF Box (No. 10 Group RAF Headquarters, 1940-1945) which became RAF Rudloe Manor and served as a communications and early warning centre up to the 1980s. Closed in 2000 it was disused for some years and has now been sold for re-development.
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Sources
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / John F Hamlin, Support and Strike!: A Concise History of the U.S. Ninth Air Force in Europe (Peterborough, 1991).