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Ghost Fields of Suffolk surveys 28 of Suffolk’s disused wartime airfields. It provides operational histories, plans and photographs of the visible remains at each site, ranging form control towers and hangars, to bomb dumps and parachute stores.
“They called it the ‘Friendly Invasion’. It began in the spring of 1942 and reached its zenith around D-Day 1944, by which time there were over 400,000 American airmen stationed in England, the vast majority crammed into a dense network of East Anglian airfields stretching north into Lincolnshire, west to Northamptonshire and south into Essex. This area became known in WW2 as ‘Little America’, and Suffolk was at its very heart. The commitment to defeat Nazi Germany, primarily by strategic bombing, saw the arrival in English shires of an air armada unmatched in history. Men (and later, a significant number of women) began arriving in their thousands. The 8th Air Force was to be the hammer with which the USAAF bludgeoned the enemy by day, wile RAF Bomber Command did much the same at night.”
Ghost Fields of Suffolk includes detailed descriptions of the airfields of Beccles, Bentwaters, Bungay, Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham), Chedburgh, Debach, Eye, Felixstowe, Framlingham (Parham), Great Ashfield, Halesworth, Horham, Ipswich (Nacton), Knettishall, Lavenham, Leiston, Martlesham Heath, Mendlesham, Metfield, Newmarket, Rattlesden, Raydon, Shepherd’s Grove, Stradishall, Sudbury, Tuddenham, Westley, and Woodbridge.
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