RAF Horham

RAF Horham lay in the Suffolk countryside roughly midway between Norwich and Ipswich. Built for the RAF, it was handed to the United States Eighth Air Force and, after early use by the 47th Bombardment Group, housed the Martin B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bombardment Group from early 1943 until that unit moved to Earls Colne in June. Horham then became the long-term home of the 95th Bombardment Group, which flew Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses from the airfield for the rest of the war in Europe. The 95th was the only Eighth Air Force group to win three Distinguished Unit Citations — for the Regensburg raid of 17 August 1943, the Münster raid of 10 October 1943, and the first American attack on Berlin on 4 March 1944. RAF Maintenance Command took the station over in 1945 and it was sold in the early 1960s. The wartime NCOs’ club survives as the restored Red Feather Club, now a museum kept by enthusiasts of the 95th.