RAF Millom

Opened in January 1941 as No.2 bombing and gunnery school and in summer became No. 2 Air Observer School. In 1942 it became No. 2 Observer Advanced Flying Unit until 1945, and in 1946 it was put under care and maintenance until 1953 when it was reopened for a 12-month period as No.1 Officer Cadet Training Unit. No. 1 O.C.T.U. departed the station in September 1953, and relocated to RAF Jurby on the Isle of Man. The following units were here at some point:

In July 2005, the archaeological television programme Time Team, along with members of RAF Millom Museum, took part in a major project to excavate the crash sites of two Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft that had collided shortly after take-off over marshes close to the then United States Army Air Forces BAD 2 airbase at Warton in Lancashire on 29 November 1944. The aircraft had been en route to Brétigny, Oise in northern France to take up service with the 641st Bombardment Squadron of the 409th Bombardment Group.