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Military Airfields of Britain: East Anglia [Norfolk and Suffolk]

By Ken Delve

ISBN: 9781861267283
PUBLISHED: 2005
PAGES: 256
BINDING: Paperback
SIZE: 235x165 mm
INSIDE: 250 b&w photographs and diagrams

This series of books provides a fresh user-friendly look at the military airfields of the British Isles. The series is split geographically, each book including a number of counties on a regional basis.

Entries cover every military airfield within the counties, from WW1 to the present day and comprise: Brief history of the airfield, construction and use including decoy sites Comprehensive list of flying units with dates and aircraft types List of HQ units based at the airfield Details of memorials Maps and plans of almost every airfield Location details Selection of period photographs

The first volume is dominated by the airfields built for the US 8th Army Air Force during WW2. These concrete airstrips played a vital part in the war effort. Today, most of the airfields lie abandoned, but some, like Marham, survive having been important Cold War bases.

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