Oulton

Airfield
Oblique aerial photograph of Oulton airfield looking south the main runway runs horizontally, the bomb dump is at the bottom of the airfield, 16 April 1946. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/1430. English Heritage (RAF Photography). eh-365.jpg RAF_106G_UK_1430_RS_4468 Oblique aerial photograph of Oulton airfield looking south the main runway runs horizontally, the bomb dump is at the bottom of the airfield, 16 April 1946. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/1430. English Heritage (RAF Photography). Historic England

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Object Number - RAF_106G_UK_1430_RS_4468 - Oblique aerial photograph of Oulton airfield looking south the main runway runs horizontally, the bomb dump is at the bottom of the airfield, 16...

An RAF Station at which lodged the 803rd Bomb Squadron (P) and later the 36th Bomb Squadron (H) in 1944. Radio Countermeasures detachments also used nearby RAF Foulsham in 1944-45.

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Darlin' Dolly
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 385th Bomb Group 549th Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: The Spirit of 77
  • Unit: 3rd Strategic Air Depot 446th Bomb Group 36th Bomb Squadron 705th Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron
  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress

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Sources

Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Michael Bowyer, Action Stations 1: Wartime Military Airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945 (Cambridge, 1979)

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