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The former Royal Air Force Station Laarbruch, more commonly known as RAF Laarbruch ICAO EDUL was a Royal Air Force station, a military airfield, located in Germany on its border with the Netherlands. The Station's motto was Ein feste Burg .HistoryThe British army built Advanced Landing Ground Goch during World War II in preparation for the final push across the Rhine River in early 1945. The infrastructure was straightforward and simple: a 1180 meter PSP runway with a parallel 983 Meters grass emergency runway, refuelling was done with jerrycans, and there was enough space for two complete Wings.It was only used between 4 March and late April. The first unit to fly from the airfield was 662 Sqn, who remained at the airfield until 24 March. They were followed by the British 121 Wing . Ten days later the Canadian No. 143 Wing joined them. The Hawker Typhoons of 121 Wing were exchanged for the Spitfires of Canadian No. 127 Wing by mid-April, but by the end of that month all Wings had left. This ended the use of B-100 airfield.In 1954 the RAFG rebuilt the World War II airfield as RAF Laarbruch due to the outbreak of the Cold War. Laarbruch was home to various first-line squadrons, including II Squadron flying F-4 Phantom II; and 15 and 16 Squadrons flying BAe Buccaneers and 25 Squadron 'C' Flight with Bloodhound surface to air missiles in the 1970s, followed by Jaguars in the 1980s. These were replaced by Tornadoes with four squadrons resident.
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