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Original Text (Annotation: EAW015645 / 2035179)

' Location of RAF Sutton on Hull, which operated as No. 17 Balloon Centre of 33 Group. The balloons deployed from here were used as part of the defensive tactics against Luftwaffe bombing raids on Hull, Hull Docks and Grimsby. '

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