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24th September 2013 Leave a Comment

Visit to Parham Airfield

In late September 2013, Terry Cook, leader of the Social History group, organised a trip to the Parham Airfield Museum. Situated near Framlingham, this airfield was home to the 300th Bomb Group during World War II, one of many American airbases in the region.

Gallery 1

Our first glimpse of the Airfield

Tea break – and we hadn’t even started yet!

In just two years: 729 personnel killed or ‘missing’. Devastating.

Reclaimed sections of aircraft

More of the same – not all related to this airfield but reclaimed by enthusiasts from all over East Anglia

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This is a bit eerie: a gas-mask designed for a baby

This model of a Flying Fortress took three years to complete

A nostalgic poem written after the Americans had gone

Painting of B17 Flying Fortresses

View from the Control Tower

Some of the equipment they would have used

Gallery 2

The coastal side of the line shown here is the ‘behind the enemy lines’ area where the Auxunits would have been deployed.

One of the exhibits showing items a resistance unit would have used

Their only recognition – a stand-down badge. Note ‘Norman Fox’ of the Southminster Patrol.

This is a re-creation, albeit above ground for easy access, of one of the bunkers the resistance patrols might have used. It was very claustrophobic in there!

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