Walcot Hall

Military site
media-17725.jpeg UPL 17725 Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan 1943. Walcot Hall (Wittering). The Eighth in the East

The Eighth in the East

Object Number - UPL 17725 - Official Air Ministry Record Site Plan 1943. Walcot Hall (Wittering).

Bought by the Dearden family in 1891, during the Second World War the Hall was used as an RAF operations room remote from conjoined RAF Wittering and RAF Collyweston. From December 1943 the 67th Fighter Wing took over, using the Hall as a command and control centre for their designated fighter units; this included planning and facilitating escort for B-17 operations over Germany.



Reverting to the Dearden's after the war until 1963 when it was bought by the Dennis family and the land used for commercial agriculture.

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 67th Fighter Wing 356th Fighter Group 361st Fighter Squadron Headquarters (67th Fighter Wing)
  • Service Numbers: 15113992 / O-714870
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot
Lieutenant-Colonel Shannon Christian of the 351st Fighter Squadron, with a P-47 Thunderbolt of the 353rd Fighter Group. Image stamped with station censor: 'Not for publication. Passed for personal use only.' Veteran's handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Col. Christian.'
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 351st Fighter Squadron Headquarters (67th Fighter Wing)
  • Service Numbers: 14023776 / O-420827
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 67th Fighter Wing 352nd Fighter Group 486th Fighter Squadron Headquarters (67th Fighter Wing)
  • Service Numbers: T-123691 / O-1998573
  • Highest Rank: Flight Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Fighter pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 356th Fighter Group Headquarters Squadron (20th Fighter Group) Headquarters Squadron (356th Fighter Group) 55th Fighter Squadron Headquarters (67th Fighter Wing)
  • Service Numbers: O-429612
  • Highest Rank: Brigadier General
  • Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 326th Signal Company
  • Service Numbers: 31247041
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Signal Corps

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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://www.raf.mod.uk/rafwittering/rafcms/mediafiles/3A91A8D7_1143_EC82…
Roger Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 1991)

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