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 Norfolk during WWII.

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 Norfolk, WWII, or the USAAF; as well as the more casual reader with a general interest in East Anglia and its more recent history.

The 448^th Bomb Group in Norfolk

The 448^th Bomb Group were based at Seething, a few miles beyond the south-eastern outskirts of the city of Norwich. It was part of the 2^nd Air Division of the 8^th Air Force and was designated Station 146.

The 448^th Bomb Group arrived in the European Theatre of Operations (ETO) in November 1943 and amassed 262 missions (7,343 Sorties) before the war’s end. Despite this number, their losses were relatively light compared to some other 2^nd AD bomb groups.

Today Seething is still in use as a general aviation airfield, and is home to one of East Anglia’s better WWII museums.

GBP £6.00 each (includes postage to UK address)

Publication June 2008