Coleby Grange

Airfield

RAF Coleby Grange is located between the villages of Coleby and Nocton Green on open heathland; used variously by UK, Canadian, US and Polish forces, and in particular by the USAAF around the period of the D-Day landings. Many US servicemen are buried at Scopwick, including John Gillespie Magee, Jr, pilot and poet who wrote 'High Flight'.



Decommissioned in 1963; returned to agricultural land; few traces of industrial landscape left.

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Detailed History

Coleby Grange was used briefly by the 425th Fighter Squadron, USAAF, flying night fighter sorties

Revisions

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ContributorMikeO
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Corrected status to that of a well-established RAF airfield.

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ContributorAAM
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