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| RAF Polebrook USAAF Station 110  .png) | |||||||||||
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| Oundle, Northamptonshire in England | |||||||||||
 RAF Polebrook - August 1948 | |||||||||||
.svg)  RAF Polebrook Shown within Northamptonshire  RAF Polebrook RAF Polebrook (the United Kingdom) | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°28′08″N 000°23′25″W / 52.46889°N 0.39028°W | ||||||||||
| Type | Royal Air Force station | ||||||||||
| Code | PK | ||||||||||
| Site information | |||||||||||
| Owner | Ministry of Defence | ||||||||||
| Operator | Royal Air Force 1941-1942, 1959-1963 United States Army Air Forces 1942-1945 | ||||||||||
| Controlled by | RAF Bomber Command Eighth Air Force | ||||||||||
| Site history | |||||||||||
| Built | 1940 | ||||||||||
| In use | 1941-1948,1959-1963 | ||||||||||
| Battles/wars | European theatre of World War II | ||||||||||
| Airfield information | |||||||||||
| Elevation | 70 metres (230 ft) AMSL | ||||||||||
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Royal Air Force Polebrook or more simply RAF Polebrook is a former Royal Air Force station located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-south-east of Oundle, at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England. The airfield was built on Rothschild estate land starting in August 1940.
It was from Polebrook that the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force carried out its first heavy bomb group (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress) combat mission on 17 August 1942, and from which Major Clark Gable flew combat missions in 1943.