RAF Oulton

England — County: Norfolk

52.7992, 1.1814 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Oulton, near Aylsham in Norfolk, opened in 1940 and began as a light-bomber station flying Bristol Blenheims and Douglas Bostons. From 1944 it joined the secretive No. 100 Group for the electronic war, its Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators — flown by Nos. 214 and 223 Squadrons — accompanying the bomber stream to jam German radar and radio. Flying ended in 1952 and the site has returned to farmland; a museum recalling the station is housed on the Blickling Hall estate.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Oulton — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Oulton — Wikipedia. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

Aerial photograph of Oulton airfield 20 April 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC298. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
ⓘ licence & creditUnited States Army Air Forces / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_Oulton_-_20_Apr_1944_Airphoto.jpgView source & full licence →

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