During the previous year the Luftwaffe had attacked Pembroke Docks and Milford Haven with the freedom from any consequences of air defences, causing a furore at high levels of state, and highlighting the need for anti-aircraft operations for the whole of the area.

615 Sqn, moving in the opposite direction from Manston in the same month, which operated Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc aircraft.

10 Group RAF, Fairwood Common Fighter Command Sector, taking on the responsibility of the air defence for the whole of South and West Wales and the protection of convoys in the Bristol and St George's Channels.

[6] Strong gales caused damage to the aircraft servicing hangars; large earth banks were built up to provide some shelter to the aircraft and protect the servicing crews, however, in depth engineering inspections were done at either RAF Fairwood Common or RAF Carew Cheriton.

This resulted with the need for the Royal Navy to leave the Angle peninsula which had RAF Pembroke Dock on its northern edge.

[17] During October 1943 RAF Angle was used by specially adapted de Havilland Mosquito aircraft, involved in trials with a new type of depth charge developed by Barnes Wallis, a bouncing bomb code-named Highball.

[12] Highball was a spherical design with dimples by Barnes Wallis and two were carried by de Havilland Mosquito aircraft, dropped either singly or in a salvoed pair.

It continued providing air defence for the next five months, until leaving for RAF Manston[9] on the 26 November 1941.

Battle of Britain pilot, Squadron Leader D. E. Gilliam, DSO, DFC and Bar, AFC, was the CO.

[9] Operating with the long-range Hawker Hurricane IIb fighter, the squadron badly damaged a Junkers Ju 88, three days after arriving at RAF Angle.

In December they provided air cover for daytime bombing attacks on Brest, using RAF Perranporth for forward aircraft refuelling.

[26] Its CO was Squadron Leader H. Bird-Wilson, DFC, and it was tasked with convoy patrols, as well as providing air defence cover for Milford Haven Waterway.

[9] It provided convoy protection in the Irish Sea and was also part of bombing raids across occupied France.

The squadron lost two Supermarine Spitfire aircraft on the 26 August, apparently colliding with each other over the sea in bad weather.

[38] Its dual role was to provide Irish Sea convoy fighter cover and local air defence, under the leadership of Squadron Leader F. E. Green, DFC.

[42] One of the key tests performed while at RAF Angle was to measure audibility of aircraft from submarines on the surface.

[7] Utilising the Leigh light (L/L) and radar search, one of the trials carried out was to see how close to a submarine different aircraft could get before they were audibly detected.

[42] The unit operated a variety of aircraft types to carry out these trials:[14] A lot of the evaluation was with ASV radar.

In the Bristol Channel the unit utilised lightships and other small Merchant ships to evaluate their equipment and tactics (as these were thought to give similar returns to partially submerged submarines).

From this the unit then developed a low visibility airstrike method, which also included ASV radar-led blind bombing.

Two months after arriving it disbanded on the 17 June 1944, and reformed as the Engine Control Instructional Flight RAF.

[17] Initially an Air Target Towing Unit, it was retitled Naval Air Firing Unit upon the move from Yeovilton to Angle, also acquiring its own fighter aircraft for pupils to be taught the gunnery section of the Fighter School course.

III, a British interceptor two-seat turret fighter aircraft constructed as a dedicated turret-less target tug, eight Miles Martinet TT.

From the 1 July 1943 the squadron operated a detachment here from RNAS Yeovilton, to support 794 NAS and the Naval Air Firing Unit.

[48] It was equipped with Hawker Sea Hurricane and Fairey Fulmar, a carrier-borne reconnaissance and fighter aircraft.

It had considerable damage to its hull and was unable to land on the water at RAF Pembroke Dock.

[3] Having rescued the survivors of two crashed aircraft: Short Sunderland JM675 and Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber BD282, the crews were passed to the Free French destroyer La Combattante.

Pilot Officer Gordon Singleton performed the first ever ‘dry’ airfield flying boat landing with no further casualties.

32 Squadron RAF collided into some ground equipment,[50] recorded as a steamroller, while attempting to land following a night flying exercise.

Near this memorial Sunderland T9114 of 461 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, was dismantled after a successful forced landing on RAF Angle airfield on 29th May 1943 This plaque was donated by the Angle Airfield Committee and the Pembrokeshire Aviation Group