RAF St Jean
Introduction '''Royal Air Force St Jean''' or more simply '''RAF St Jean''' is a former Royal Air Force station in Palestine, now Israel, which is located  approximately 4 km east-northeast of Acre and 100 km north-northeast of Tel Aviv.When located in the British Mandate of Palestine during the Second World War the airfield was used as a military airfield by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces of America during the North African Campaign against Axis forces.No. 147 Squadron RAF began to assemble at St. Jean in January 1942, but when no Consolidated Liberator aircraft could be made available, the ground crews were attached to other units. USAAF Ninth Air Force units which used the airfield were:* 343rd Bombardment Squadron (98th Bombardment Group), 21 August-10 November 1942, Consolidated B-24 Liberator* 344th Bombardment Squadron (98th Bombardment Group), 21 August-11 November 1942, Consolidated B-24 LiberatorAfter the war, the airfield appears to have been abandoned. The area today is a collection of agricultural fields. Two single-lane agricultural roads in a "V" pattern are the remnants of the airfield's runways (17/35, 10/28), but no evidence of the support area or runways remain.
References
Bibliography * Maurer, M. ''Air Force Combat Units of World War II''. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983..*