Boreham

Airfield
Aerial photograph of Boreham airfield, looking east, there is a T2 hangar in the centre right of the image, 4 July 1949. Photograph taken by No. 50 Squadron, sortie number RAF/58/281. English Heritage (RAF Photography). eh-22.jpg RAF_58_281_V_5077 Aerial photograph of Boreham airfield, looking east, there is a T2 hangar in the centre right of the image, 4 July 1949. Photograph taken by No. 50 Squadron, sortie number RAF/58/281. English Heritage (RAF Photography). Historic England

IWM, English Heritage Collection

Object Number - RAF_58_281_V_5077 - Aerial photograph of Boreham airfield, looking east, there is a T2 hangar in the centre right of the image, 4 July 1949. Photograph taken by No. 50...

Built in 1943-1944, it was used by B-26 Marauder bombers of the Ninth Air Force's 394th Bomb Group in 1944. The 315th Troop Carrier Group were temporary lodgers at the airfield in 1945, shortly before it closed.



Used as a motor racing circuit in the 1940s and 1950s, the airfield has also been home to the Essex Air Ambulance and currently hosts one of the National Police Air Service's EC-135 helicopters, its crews using the original control tower as their offices.

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11065885 / O-669014
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-793080
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 38515895
  • Highest Rank: Corporal (RAF)
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13086118
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33499729
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
  • Role/Job: Engineer / Gunner

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: L-4 Grasshopper
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron
A B-26 Marauder (H9-Q, serial number 44-68161) of the 586th Bomb Squadron, 394th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: '394BG, 586BS.'
  • Aircraft Type: B-26 Marauder
  • Nicknames: Slow Starter
  • Unit: 394th Bomb Group 586th Bomb Squadron

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Paragraph break added

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Added aircraft type.

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Added police helicopter use.

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Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, Airfields of the Ninth Then and Now (London, 1994)

Roger Freeman, Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 2001)

Michael Bowyer, Action Stations 1: Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945 (Cambridge, 1979)

Boreham: Gallery (14 items)