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 466th Bomb Group in Norfolk
The 446th Bomb Group were based at
Attlebridge mid way between Shipdham Airfield and Horsham St Faith Airfield. The
466th were nicknamed The Flying deck and Attlebridge was in reality
USAAF Station 120.
They arrived in March 1944 and bombed
continuously through until September the same year when they were seconded into
a supply role to support the Allied ground troops sweeping across Europe
towards the nazi homeland and Berlin. Fuel for the tanks spearheading the push
was one of their main cargos
GBP £6.00
each (includes postage to
Publication date 2009