CLEAVE: Military aerodrome (Also known as RAF CLEAVE, CLEAVE CAMP[?] and BUDE )

Note: Pictures by the author.

Cleave in 2000

Another view of Cleave in 2000

Military users: RAF Fighter Command 70 Group
639 Sqdn (Hurricanes/Martinets/Vengeance TTs)
AA (anti-aircraft gunnery) Co-operation unit

U.S. First Army ‘V’ Corps
406th Field Artillery Group
190^th Field Artillery Battalion

Location: 4nm N of Bude

Period of operation: 1939 to 1945

Runways: WW2: ENE/WSW 823 grass N/S 686 grass

NOTES: In the later part of World War Two the U.S. First Army had two Piper L-4 Grasshoppers were based here.

From 1985, it seems, RAF CLEAVE became a radio research station - and perhaps still is? Apparently part of GCHQ.

This comment was written on: 2019-07-17 16:00:44

Used as a HAA Practice/Firing Camp in about 1949

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