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Military site : airfield
Aerial photograph of Sculthorpe airfield looking north, the technical and bomb dump are on the left, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/50. English Heritage (RAF Photography).
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Airfield Site 1956
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Alphabetical Key 1944
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Dispersed Sites 1944
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Airfield Site 1944
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Airfield Site 1944
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Airfield Site 1944
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Airfield Site 1956
Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan-Airfield Site 1956
A photograph of RAF Sculthorpe, probably taken in April 1944. Both RAF and USAAF B17/Fortresses can be seen parked around the site. An area within the runway triangle and by the watchtower appear to have been painted over on the negative. The theory is that this is to disguise gliders which were parked there prior to D Day.
Built for the RAF in 1942-43, and used by the RAF 1943-44. The Eighth Air Force's 803rd Bomb Squadron (P) were a Radio Countermeasures unit lodging here in 1944. The base was used by both the RAF and US forces in the post-war period.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/43; Gr Isle 3/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-Z] Horham 27/6/43; 334BS [BG-C]; 38m, transferred 388BG Aphrodite Project [remote controlled flying bomb filled with Torpex explosives], Knettishall; 803BS RCM...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 23/6/43; Dow Fd 19/7/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-F] Snetterton 20/7/43; transferred 36BS for Radio Counter Measures, Sculthorpe 1944. Missing in Action Heligoland 30/10/44, with Lts with Gaither & W. Dunnuck. Intended for submarine...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 15/7/43; Rapid City 10/8/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 9/9/43; transferred RCM 803BS Sculthorpe /44; damaged by PB4Y explosion on APH mission 12-8-44; Salvaged 14/11/44.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 16/8/43; Long Beach 17/8/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-M] Rougham 11/9/43; transferred 803BS RCM Sculthorpe 1/44; APH Knettishall; Missing in Action Heligoland 15/10/44 with Lts W. Patton & J. Hinner. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:02:18 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Michael Bowyer, Action Stations 1: Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945 (Cambridge, 1979) |
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