RAF Metfield
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RAF Metfield in Suffolk opened in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 366. It was used first by the 353rd Fighter Group, flying Republic P-47 Thunderbolts on bomber escort, and then by the 491st Bombardment Group, whose Consolidated B-24 Liberators flew until the group moved to North Pickenham; a special-duties unit also flew clandestine transport missions from the field. The Americans left after the war and the land returned to agriculture, with only a few brick buildings, huts and stretches of taxiway surviving.
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