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RAF Ascension Island
This Royal Air Force base was built in 1939 and is still in use.
The base became well-known because of Operation Black Buck: 7 bombardment-missions to the airfield on the Falklands, between 30 April and 12 June 1982 in the Falklands War.
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- Text: Kaj Metz & Fedor de Vries
- Photos: Pauline and John Grimshaw
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