Elveden Hall
Military site
Elveden Hall housed the Headquarters of the 8th Air Force's 3rd Bomb Division.
Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Elveden Hall.' Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 7543 - The water tower at Elveden Hall with washing hanging out to dry in the foreground. Elveden Hall housed the Headquarters of the 8th Air Force's 3rd...
Elveden Hall, Brandon, Suffolk was used during the Second World War as a headquarters for the USAAF Third Air Division. Some evidence to suggest that the staff quarters were struck and destroyed by a bomb.
Camp Blainey was probably a camp of tents and/or huts used to house the staff, erected in the grounds of the Hall.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron (3rd Bomb Division)
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Combat Artist
Aircraft
Revisions
Corrected spelling from 'Elvedon Hall' to 'Elveden Hall'.
Source: http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/acm8.htm
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 (February 1967, Revised October 1980).