Bomb
Groups in Norfolk
The books in this series are A5, pocket sized
photo histories of the life and times of the American service men who were part
of the USAAF stationed in
The greater majority
of the photos in all the books were taken by those men with their own cameras.
Some photos were official, some were semi-official and many were very
un-official. The books show how the airfields and the men, their planes and
their way of life through their own eyes. Each one is a unique pictorial time
capsule.
They are printed on high quality gloss art paper with a full colour
gloss card cover with the rear cover depicting the colourful jacket patches of
the various operational squadrons. Each book also contains several pages of the
now famous ‘nose Art’ which was one of the trade marks of the USAAF bomber
squadrons. This series will make a great addition to the library of both the
serious student of the history of
The 389th Bomb Group in Norfolk
The 389th Bomb Group were based at Hethel, some ten to twelve
miles south of the city of
From it’s arrival in June 1943, it contributed heavily to the work of the
2nd Air Division. As such it received more than it’s fair share of
famous and important visitors, all of which was caught on camera and reproduced
in this book.
Hethel is still alive and home to the Lotus Car factory,
and the station museum remains active close to the Factory entrance just off
the A11 trunk road. That is how it looks today, this book shows how it looked
then.
GBP £6.00
each (includes postage to
Publication date April
2006