Sculthorpe

Airfield
Aerial photograph of Sculthorpe airfield looking north, the technical and bomb dump are on the left, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/50. English Heritage (RAF Photography). eh-442.jpg RAF_3G_TUD_UK_50_RV_6016 Aerial photograph of Sculthorpe airfield looking north, the technical and bomb dump are on the left, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/50. English Heritage (RAF Photography). Historic England

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Object Number - RAF_3G_TUD_UK_50_RV_6016 - Aerial photograph of Sculthorpe airfield looking north, the technical and bomb dump are on the left, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90...

Built for the RAF in 1942-43, and used by the RAF 1943-44. The Eighth Air Force's 803rd Bomb Squadron (P) were a Radio Countermeasures unit lodging here in 1944. The base was used by both the RAF and US forces in the post-war period.

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Aircraft

42-37743

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Yankee Doodle Dandy
  • Unit: 94th Bomb Group 333rd Bomb Squadron 803rd Bomb Squadron

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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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