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Lest We Forget
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RAF Wattisham & Airfield
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I was based at RAF Wattisham from August 1967 until July 1969 after obtaining an exchange posting with another Aircraft Engine Fitter whilst I was stationed at RAF Stradishall. I worked on 29 (F) Squadron 1st line servicing with occasional stints in the hangar (or shed as we called it). 29 Squadron op...
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RAF Mildenhall
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In 1935 King George V reviewed his Air Force at Mildenhall, there were over 350 aircraft on display and then they all flew over the King after he had driven to Duxford I have visited the non base side on several occasions but have never visited the base, viewing areas are few and far between, a Caravan Par...
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RAF Leiston
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The USAAF operated P51 Mustangs from Leiston and were a highly successful escort fighter base, anyone with memories or photos please place them here, there is a connection with Yoxford as some of the pilots were known as the 'Yoxford Boys' anyone know the reason?
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John Cooper
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Ipswich Airport/RAF Nacton Ipswich
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I once lived on the Nacton Road which backed on to Ipswich Airport, in fact I had a back gate that led on to the periphery of the airfield. I was able to sit in the rear garden and watch those parachutists leave the Britten Islander parachute aircraft after the throttles were cut back, with anything up to 9...
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RAF Lakenheath
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A huge base adjacent to RAF Mildenhall, this area is known as 'Little America' I had the privilege of doing a base tour here in July 2009 organised by The Martlesham Heath Aviation Society, I took many photos some of which I will place here later, if you have any memories or your own photographs then plea...
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MAEE & RAF Felixstowe
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This site must be included here with Martlesham Heath as the equivalent to what MH achieved in the A&AEE Field FXT achieved the equivalent in the MAEE Field throughout the early years of aircraft development and testing I can't add too much myself to this despite working at The Port of FXT for a num...
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RAF Bent'waters
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The F100D of the type that once was based at BW
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RAF Sutton Heath [Woodbridge]
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Anyone has any memories in connection with MH and Sutton Heath please tell us about them.......
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RAF Honington
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Still an active service station and probably the only one that is in full time use in Suffolk exclusively to the RAF, today the incumbents are the RAF Regiment, but it hasn't always been thus. I only ever landed there once in 'cadging' a lift in a MR3 Shackleton from St Mawgan, the place was operating V-B...
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General
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If you take a ten mile radius of Martlesham Heath then you will see that this area has provided some of the most important military sites the UK has built over the decades/centuries 1> Martlesham itself testing almost evrerything that flew from land from 1917 until 1939 and then becoming a fighter...
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RAF Mendlesham
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I have no records or photos of this wartime base so if anyone can help or has any memories please feel free to let us have them
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RAF Barnham
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Anyone ever based here I recall passing this base on my way to Thetford and seeing many Tanks in the compound here, this was also a base for Nuclear Weapons storage On another visit en route Thetford - Swaffham I came across a convoy [1970's] with RN markings complete with civvy motorcycle outriders an...
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John Cooper
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RAF Bawdsey
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No doubt there was a connection with RAF Bawdsey, RADAR and Martlesham Heath, anyone with any memories?
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RAF Metfield
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This was once a very large base used by the British and American forces, I have been to Metfield but do not know much [if anything] about this station so any memories/photographs would be more than welcomeÂ
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RAF Chedburgh
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Many an occasion I have been past this former base built as a satellite station initially for Stradishall. Polish Freedom Fighters formed two squadrons here during WWII Anyone with memories or their own photos to share
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RAF Gt Ashfield
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Again one of these USAAF bases that I know nothing about so if anyone knows any details or has photos can you please share same
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John Cooper
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RAF Framlingham/Parham
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RAF Debach
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The last airfield in the 8th Air Force to be built for the USAAF, the runways were not up to scratch when built and had to be resurfaced, now used as large warehousing facilities. Once held PoW's, anyone with a connection, memories or their own photos to share, and anyone with an update on the Control Tow...
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John Cooper
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RAF Shepherds Grove
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I know very little about this airfield apart from seeing many boats being stored on an industrial site many years ago, so if anyone has any memories please let us know about them here I took this pic at Rougham Airfield last week Richard Flagg informs me they were moved to Rougham from Shepherds Grove, t...
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RAF Raydon
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The USAAF operated P51 Mustangs out of Raydon during WWII. There used to be a fantastic fly in/airshow a few years ago, sadly no longer. I flew over what is left of the old airfield about 5 years ago with a pilot friend
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RAF Knettishall
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Knettishall 10m NE Bury St Edmunds 388th Bomb Group was based here, perhaps this scene is reminiscent to some
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RAF Rattlesden
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Home to the USAAF during the latter part of WWII, it once was a satellite to Wattisham but was not used, it eventually became a Bloodhound Missile base before disbandment
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RAF Tuddenham [St Mary]
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Not to be confused with the Tuddenham near Ipswich, this is the airfield that was built in 1943 near Mildenhall, I know nothing about this drome except that Short Stirlings operated from here as Mine Laying aircraft and that Special Ops [SOE] were also carried out from here. I believe the USAF had cont...
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RAF Flixton
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RAF Flixton was there long before the Museum but the Norfolk & Suffolk Aviation Museum is one of the most fantastic museums I have visited, I have been here many times and have never been disappointed. But going back to the RAF/USAAF base there are many tales to be told here I know but those can be kep...
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RAF Westley
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Once was the West Suffolk Aero Club when founded in 1938, always had a grass strip and operated Lysanders, Tiger Moths and AOP Austers
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RAF Newmarket Heath [Rowley Mile]
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Thursday I went past here on the A14, I was a passenger in a car and could see the Racecourse and Grandstand through the trees, did any of you know that the first flight of any jet aircraft to enter service in the UK took place here, it was unofficial regarding the Gloster Prototype, the aircraft lifted of...
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RAF Ellough/Beccles & Heliport
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This was built for the USAAF operations in 1943 but RAF Coastal Command used the airfield extensively later in WWII, flying Warwick aircraft equipped with Airborne liferafts for use of ditched pilots in the North Sea. Gorleston and Felixstowe ASR were used in coordinated searches with the Warwick...
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Foxhall USAF Transmitter/Receiver Station
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RAF Rougham/Bury St Edmunds
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RAF Rougham was taken over by the USAAF almost as soon as it was completed, anyone with memories or photos, there is a memorial garden in the Abbey Gardens at nearby Bury St Edmunds with various erected memorials
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