Gosfield
Airfield
Airfield below formation is AAF Station 154 Gosfield
Object Number - FRE 1275 - B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group fly in formation during a practice mission. The aircraft, left to right are: (VE-O, serial number...
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
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 387th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: 35342038
- Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
- Role/Job: Aircraft Crew Chief
![Colonel Ray J Stecker of the 365th Fighter Group straps Staff Sergeant Bailey R Ingram into the cockpit of his two- seat P-47 Thunderbolt. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 22 Nov 1944.'[stamp], 'Sacred.' [stamp] Printed caption on reverse: 'Two-seated P-47, Nov 22. Official 9th US Air Force photo. NINTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, SOMEWHERE IN FRNACE.... A P-47 Thunderbolt fighter-bomber, normally seating only the pilot, has been converted into a passenger plane at a Ninth Air Force base in B](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-456564.jpg.webp?itok=tdF2vmma)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 388th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
- Role/Job: Aircraft Mechanic
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Role/Job: Medical Clerk
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 365th Fighter Group 388th Fighter Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-525183
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Fighter Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Nicknames: Hi-Ne Hunter
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Nicknames: Talliwacker II
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 647th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 647th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: A-20 Havoc
- Nicknames: Helen
- Unit: 410th Bomb Group 645th 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)