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- ATTLEBRIDGE: If you drive approximately 8 miles north-west of Norwich, you’ll find Attlebridge, which was an early wartime station established for the use of the No. 2 Group RAF light bombers.
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BIRCHAM NEWTON: Located just over 13 miles north-east of King's Lynn, it was a First World War Royal Flying Corps base and home to the largest British bomber of that period, the Handley Page V/1500. It was operational throughout the Second World War as part of No. 16 Group RAF Coastal Command.
Shipdham is our next destination and has the distinction of being the first heavy bomber base activated in Norfolk. The 44th Bomb Group were in residence between November 1942 and June 1945.
May 30, 2014 · RAF Hethel was one of the first in Norfolk of the bomber stations built for the use by USAAF as a bomb squadron base. It was designated Station 114. Completed in 1942, the base was used by the 320th Bombardment Group and later by the 310th and 389th Bombardment Groups.
List of Norfolk airfields. This is a list of current or former military airfields within the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia. They may have been used by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), Royal Air Force (RAF), Army Air Corps (AAC), Fleet Air Arm (FAA), United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) or the United States ...
NameAlt NameUsed ByDatesUSAAF Station 120 (Eighth Air Force)RAF, USAAFJune 1941 – 5 August 1956RNAS BactonRNAS, RAF1915 – March 1919USAAF Station 141 (8th AF)RAF, USAAFMarch 1940 – November 1945RNAS Burgh CastleRNAS, RAF1915–1919Consolidated B-24H-15-CF Liberator Serial 41-29433 of the 576th Bomb Squadron on a mission over enemy-occupied territory. This aircraft crash-landed 29 May 1944 at Sporle, near Little Fransham, in Norfolk, in the north of the East Anglia of England.
Shipdham was the first US heavy bomber base in Norfolk and was also the continuous host to B-24 Liberators. Between 1946 and 1947, the airfield was used as a transit centre for German POWs a route from the United States for repatriation to Germany. Currently is the home of the Shipdham Aero Club.
Oct 30, 2012 · Originally a grass airfield, cleared from farmland, it was constructed to be a dispersal base for nearby RAF Horsham St Faiths and following a heavy raid on Horsham a few months later it soon became home to their Blenheims. The base almost took in the village of Oulton and during its grass phase an open public road ran across it.
