Gosfield
AirfieldAirfield below formation is AAF Station 154 Gosfield
First used as an airfield during the First World War, when known as Royal Flying Corps/RAF Sible Hedingham, it was built as Gosfield for the Eighth Air Force and then Ninth Air Force in 1942-43. Home to first the 365th Fighter Group, then the 397th Bomb Group 1944 and 410th Bomb Group, it was handed back to the RAF in 1945. The airfield was closed and mostly returned to agriculture in the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was also used as a car test track 1968-87, and for light engineering and plant hire from the 1990s to date.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 386th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-793505
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 388th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-522149
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 644th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 386th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-417403
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot / Asst Group Operations Officer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 386th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-418131
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Fighter pilot-1055 Deputy Group CO
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 644th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 646th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 646th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Nicknames: Thunderbird
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 647th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Nicknames: Mary Ruth
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 646th Bomb Squadron
Revisions
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)