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Greenham Common
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Greenham Common
a village in West Berkshire unitary authority, Berkshire; site of a US cruise missile base, and, from 1981, a camp of women protesters against nuclear weapons; although the base had closed by 1991 a small number of women remained until 2000


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My first assignment was to RAF Greenham Common (when it was a Cold War bomber base) and there met my beautiful wife-to-be, Maureen.
Ron Siebert - Florida; Your Life daily by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
The protest started on September 5, 1981 when a Welsh group "Women for life on earth" arrived at the RAF Greenham Common airbase to challenge the deployment of 96 cruise missiles there.
Letter: Remember them by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
RAF Regiment, RAF police, Ministry of Defence police, and civilian police forces all participated in extensive security operations around RAF Greenham Common in particular, which received its first GLCMs in May 1983.
Anglo-American strategic air power co-operation in the Cold War and ... by Finn, Christopher; Berg, Paul D. / Air & Space Power Journal
 
 
 
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