RAF St Jean

Royal Air Force St Jean or more simply RAF St Jean is a former Royal Air Force station in Mandatory Palestine, now Israel, which is located approximately 4 km east-northeast of Acre and 100 km north-northeast of Tel Aviv.

RAF St Jean
Acre, Mandatory Palestine (now Israel) in Mandatory Palestine (now Israel)
Site information
Type	Military airfield
Owner	Royal Air Force
Operator	Royal Air Force United States Army Air Forces
Controlled by	RAF Middle East Command
Open to the public	No
Condition	Abandoned
Location
RAF St Jean Location in present-day Israel
Coordinates	32°56′32.81″N 035°06′30.60″E
Site history
In use	Until 1946
Fate	Converted to agricultural land
Battles/wars	North African Campaign (World War II)
Garrison information
Occupants	No. 147 Squadron RAF 343rd Bombardment Squadron (USAAF) 344th Bombardment Squadron (USAAF)

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.^[1]

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 Liberator

After 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.