Rudloe Manor
Military site
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 10278 - A 9th Air Force soldier examines an unexploded 1800kg bomb nicknamed "Satan" that landed near Rudloe Manor airbase. Handwritten caption on reverse:...
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.
Revisions
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).
