RAF Little Walden
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RAF Little Walden was built in Essex north of Saffron Walden and opened in 1944 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 165. It was used first by the P-51 Mustangs of the 361st Fighter Group and then by the Douglas A-20 Havocs of the 409th Bombardment Group, supporting the campaign in north-west Europe. The Americans left in 1946 and the land returned to farming, though the control tower and parts of the taxiways still stand.
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Keith Evans / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Control_Tower_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2413601.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
Chris Heaton / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concrete_Farm_Track_on_the_Former_RAF_Walden_Airfield_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7643225.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
assumed USAAF / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:409bg-a26.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
assumed USAAF / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:361fg-p51-E9.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
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