Eccles
Military site
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 6275 - A commemorative stained glass window, dedicated to airmen of the 96th Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '1945, window in church of Eccles Rd,...
Exact location unknown - centred on the Eccles Road area adjacent to Snetterton Heath 138. There is an active, but un-manned railway station there that would probably have been used in Eccles proposed capacity as a Strategic Air Depot Area. However, this was shelved when it was decided that the 3rd Air Division would change from B-24 to B-17 aircraft and it became a storage area until December 1944. It was taken over by the 9th Troop Carrier Command.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2062638
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33 288 642
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36 698 781
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Revisions
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Roger Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Manual (London, 1991).
