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 445th Bomb Group in Norfolk
The 445th Bomb Group were based at
Tibenham, thirteen miles to the southwest of the city of Norwich, close to Old
Buckenham and Fersfield airfields. Tibenham was in reality USAAF Station 124.
The 445th arrived in Norfolk during
early December 1943 and bombed continuously (7,145 sorties) through until hostilities
ceased in 1945. Although sustaining their share of casualties, the 445th
were particularly badly mauled on the Kassel raid on Sept 27th 1944.
GBP £6.00
each (includes postage to
Publication date 2009