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SOH ADMINISTRATIONKevin,Hi Cees,
East Wretham and Wormingford are also missing. I have East Wretham. Would you like me to add it as well as Oakington and Hardwick to the library?
Kevin
East Wretham was a base that housed the ‘Greennoses’ of 359th Fighter Group from october1943 to november 1945. Originally they flew with P-47 Thunderbolts on ground attack missions, but were re-equipped with P-51 Mustangs in march 1944. These Mustangs were used on bomber escort missions. The 359th flew 346 missions from East Wretham.
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This project has a long history. It was in a way the starting point of my scenery making ‘career’.
This airbase was made with the help of photographs, aerial pictures and a site plan as found in the books of Roger A. Freeman, ‘Airfields of the Eight- Ten and Now’ and ‘The Mighty Eight- War Manual’.
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Meadowland five miles north-west of the centre of Cambridge was selected as a site for an expansion scheme airfield in the 1930s and construction of Oakington began in the summer of 1939. The station came into use under No. 2 Group in July 1940 as a refuge for battered No. 218 Squadron, recently returned from France, and re-equipping with Blenheims and its first offensive operation from the station was made on August 19. In September, Oakington was passed to No. 3 Group and chosen as the...
Wormingford, Station 159. Home base of the 55th Fighter Group. The 55th Fighter Group achieved the distinction of having the first American fighter squadrons in the skies
of Berlin. The 55th FG patrolled the English Channel during the Normandy invasion.
Afcad and AI files included.
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