RAF Castle Kennedy [entry point]

RAF Castle Kennedy was located in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, 5 miles (8 kms) east of Stranraer.

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In early 1941 the station was developed as an air gunnery school which, during the course of the war, used Blenheims, Hampdens, Wellingtons, Ansons and Bothas with Battles, Defiants, Lysanders and Martinets as target tugs. A Coastal Command torpedo training unit also used the station.

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