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Although I know the question I'm about to ask is impossible to answer conclusively, I would be grateful for and educated or informed 'best guess'. One of my granddads was stationed somewhere near Scapa Flow for most of WWII (when he talked about his wartime experience, my dad used to say, “Harold, the war was in the other direction”). As we are about to visit Orkney, I thought I might go to see where he was stationed. As it's a small island, I assumed that there were only one or two airfields, but last night I had a look and found this lot: RAF Grimsetter (now Kirkwall airport), RAF Skeabrae, RAF Netherbutton (radar station), HMS Sparrowhawk/ RNAS Hatston HMS Tern / RNAS Twatt (Sorry Mike, but that really was its name). As he was in the RAF military police, I assume the last two can be discounted. Would he be stationed at a particular site and if so, which is the more likely, or is it more probable that he would have moved around to all the RAF bases on Orkney, so looking for a particular site would be pointless? Thanks for taking the time to look in. Gorby
