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Main units at Morecombe

No. 243 Squadron (15 – 17 Dec 1944) - at No. 2 Personnel Despatch Centre (2 PDC)
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No. 9 School of Technical Training (28 Dec 1939 -17 May 1942)
"School of Technical Training” (9 S of TT)

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No. 3 WAAF Depot (1 Oct 1941 – 30 Nov 1942)
Womens Auxiliary Air Force

No. 2 Personnel Despatch Centre (25 Feb 1943 - 5 Jan 1946)

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Air Crew Training Wing (Polish) (2 Dec 1943 – 14 Nov 1945)

Sub-site, No. 61 Maintenance Unit (xxx 1947 – 13 Jul 1949)
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No.9 School of Technical Training opened in November 1939 training Flight Mechanics & Riggers.
The White Lund Site with its grass strip was utilised for the stripping and re-building of aircraft
which were brought to the site on RAF “Queen Mary’s” (Low-Loaders).
Three hangars were used for this work, but local garages were also used to give additional
practical experience to the trainees. The airstrip was almost certainly too short for take-off and
landing, but taxi tests and training for aircraft movements on the ground were conducted on the
site. New intakes of airmen were mustered for training as air frame mechanics and were marched
around the streets and given accommodation in private houses known as billets, locals with spare
rooms were required by law to accommodate service personnel. This form of billeting was
unexpected as new airmen thought they would be in an RAF station barracks. They became
qualified Flight Mechanics ‘A’ for airframe and ʻEʼ for engines. All were then promoted to
Aircraftsman 1st Class and given a posting to a new Unit.