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RAF Sudbury was opened in 1944 and was built as a standard Class A heavy bomber airfield, with three intersecting concrete runways of standard lengths, fifty hardstands and two T2 hangars, to meet the USAAF bomber requirements. The airfield had a slight gradient towards the north-east and was constructed on what had been farmland.
A brick pentacle and plaque commemorating the site. Camp Griffiss was a US military base in the United Kingdom during and after World War II.Constructed within the grounds of Bushy Park in Middlesex (now in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames), England, it served as the European Headquarters for the United States Army Air Forces from July 1942 to December 1944.
It was built as a standard heavy bomber airfield to Class A specification. The three intersecting runways were of 2,030, 1,440 and 1,430 yards length. There was an encircling concrete perimeter track and fifty aircraft hardstands, along with two T-2 hangars, technical sites and Nissen hut accommodations for some 3,000 persons, dispersed in the ...
Upon the entry of the United States into WW2, a number of Royal Air Force Class A bases were transferred to the U.S. Eighth Air Force for use as heavy bomber bases, with the RAF units formerly occupying them being redeployed to other RAF bomber airfields, and U.S. Army Engineer Units constructed more airfields to this standard, or brought ...
The Ragged Irregulars of Bassingbourn: The 91st Bombardment Group in World War II. ISBN 0-88740-810-9. Jefford, C G (1988). RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 1-85310-053-6. Maurer, M. Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. USAF ...
Royal Air Force Stoney Cross or more simply RAF Stoney Cross is a former Royal Air Force station in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. The airfield is located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Lyndhurst and 12 miles (19 km) west of Southampton. Opened in 1942, [2] it served both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces ...
Royal Air Force Syerston, [2] commonly known simply as RAF Syerston (ICAO: EGXY), is a Royal Air Force station in the parish of Flintham, near Newark, Nottinghamshire, England. Opened in 1940, it was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a bomber base during the Second World War , operating Vickers Wellingtons , Avro Manchesters , and the Avro ...
Two of the 524th Squadron B-17's claimed individual fame: "Ole Gappy" (or "Ol' Gappy") completed 157 missions (with just one abort), [2] probably more than any other Eighth Air Force bomber; and "Swamp Fire" was the first heavy bomber to achieve 100 missions without an abort, with Lt Bruce E. Mills as the pilot of that mission.