RAF Benson News - Royal Air Force Their numbers were swelled by thousands of German POWs returning from abroad. 78 Squadron and its replacement by 846 Naval Air Squadron (NAS). Sunday services are provided in Benson and Ewelme churches. 227th GEN HOSP ETO Dec 44 France 46th MED DEP CO ETO Aug 44 France (operated M-452) 221st GEN HOSP ETO 12 Feb 45 France 313th STA HOSP ETO 14 Jan 44 England (Rehabilitation Center No. There are discrepancies amongst sources regarding the opening date of the station, with both 1 February and 1 April 1939 quoted in RAF and other publications. 8271st GEN HOSP ETO 3 Mar 45 England (Provisional German PW Hospital) 114th GEN HOSP ETO England 3 ETO 20 Apr 44 Wales 19 May 44 England 44 France Rhineland Search these records by: These files may contain missing person and casualty action sheets, death certificates, personal letters and correspondence, exhumation reports, investigation reports, questionnaires by repatriated personnel and personal effects of POWs. 83d GEN HOSP ETO England 24 Jun 45 France 155th GEN HOSP USAFBI Sep 43 ETO 29 Jul 44 England (inactivated 21 Sep 45) The following record types may prove useful when tracing the career of an officer: You can trace the commissions and promotions of an RAF officers career from March 1919 in the Air Force List, available at The National Archives at Kew and other specialist libraries and archives (see section 11). Location: Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The programme was abandoned in May 2009, when it was decided to largely retain the existing JHC basing arrangements. However, a request can be made by the family for a Royal Air Force representative through their local station Warrant Officer who will do their best to arrange one where circumstances allow. Leading and directing RAF Marham through war operations and major force restructuring under strategic cut backs. 238th GEN HOSP ETO 29 Apr 45 Belgium 182d GEN HOSP ETO 5 Apr 44 England (assisted by the 682d General Hospital Complementary Unit, active from 16 May 44 to 31 Oct 45 in the UK, designated Prison Hospital for all US Army Prisoners in the Western Base from 7 Jun 44 onwards, closed down 11 Jun 45, but only effective 16 Jun 45, later successively assigned to 804th HOSP CEN, 12th HOSP CEN, 802d HOSP CEN, 905th HOSP CEN, and 805th HOSP CEN in the UK)