HMS Grebe
HMS ''Grebe'' was the Royal Navy designation for the prewar Alexandria airport, known as Dekheila, during its use in World War II as a shore base for aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA). Coordinates are given as also known as LG-34, and renumbered as LG-235. History Originally used as a shore base for aircraft flown ashore from aircraft carriers by the FAA (as HMS ''Nile II'', under the control of ), the airfield was taken over by the Royal Egyptian Air Force on the outbreak of World War II, but remained in use by the FAA. The field was subsequently loaned as a Naval Air Station on 16 September 1940, and commissioned as HMS ''Grebe'', attached to HMS ''Nile'', with a capacity of 72 aircraft. The field became self accounting on 1 April 1941, and acted as a base for all FAA units in Egypt and the Western Desert, as well as a fleet requirements unit. HMS ''Nile'' resumed control on 1 April 1943, retaining the name HMS ''Grebe''. The field was reduced to a care and maintenance ba ...
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335 (Hellenic) Squadron RAF Hurricane Pilots Egypt WWII IWM CM 3362
__NOTOC__ Year 335 (Roman numerals, CCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Constantius and Albinus (or, less frequently, year 1088 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 335 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * September 14 – Emperor Constantine the Great, Constantine I consecrates the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Old City (Jerusalem), Jerusalem. * September 19 – Dalmatius, Flavius Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar (title), Caesar, with control of Thracia, Achaia (Roman province), Achaia, and Macedonia (Roman province), Macedonia. * Hannibalianus, nephew of Constantine I, is made ''King of Kings, Rex Regum'' ("King of Kings of the Pontus (region), Pontic people"). * November 7 ...
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