RAF Spitalgate
[1] Flying training continued at RAF Grantham during the inter-war years; Nos 100 and 39 Squadrons were present for much of the 1920s.Also in November 1943, elements of the HQ IX Troop Carrier Command of the United States Army Air Forces were relocated to RAF Spitalgate, with their headquarters at St. Vincents in the town centre.The station was also the training and point-of-departure for the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade during Operation Market Garden.Spitalgate acted as a parent station for a relief landing ground four miles further south at RAF Harlaxton from November 1916 until 1945.In 1975 the RAF vacated the site and the following year it became a British Army installation, renamed Prince William of Gloucester Barracks.