Snettisham

Military site
media-13560.jpeg UPL 13560 Andrew Tolmachoff

Photo location identified from other images taken at the Snettisham gunnery school held in the ARG Archive.

Object Number - UPL 13560 - Andrew Tolmachoff

Sometime after late summer in 1943 an RAF Gunnery Range was taken over to provide gunnery training for B-17 crews close to where they would be deployed at East Anglian airfields.



At some point the site became a Prisoner of War Camp and was possibly still occupied with German POWs up to 1948.



Although some evidence has been lost due to costal erosion, the fact that the land is now occupied by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve has meant that many of the concrete installations, brick buildings, firing ranges and protective banks are still intact.

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-805776
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-694353
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35579373
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-755018
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator / Bombardier Instructor
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 525th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15103734 / O-692968
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Revisions

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Sources

based upon data uploaded to Joseph W Jennings profile

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Sources

Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Office of History, Headquarters Third Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe; Installations and USAAF Combat Units in the United Kingdom 1942-1945, Revised and Expanded Edition (February1967, Revised October 1980).
http://forum.armyairforces.com/1-CCGS-Snettisham-Site-report-m180497.as…
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/prisoner-of-war-camps/p…
http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1475282&sort=4&search=all&c… Gunnery&rational=q&recordsperpage=10

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