RAF Rackheath

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Photograph of RAF Rackheath
ⓘ licence & creditBritish Government / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rackheathairfield_9july1946.png

About

RAF Rackheath, near Norwich in Norfolk, opened in 1944 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 145. It was home to the 467th Bombardment Group — the “Rackheath Aggies” — whose Consolidated B-24 Liberators flew on the Eighth Air Force’s daylight campaign; one of its aircraft, “Witchcraft”, became famous for completing a long string of missions without turning back. The Americans left in 1945, and the site is now an industrial estate, the control tower surviving as offices.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including Rackheath — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust and RAF Rackheath — 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

Picture of old RAF Rackheath control tower taken after refurbishment, taken 8th November 2007 from nearby field.
ⓘ licence & creditGraemeLeggett / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rackheath_control_tower.jpgView source & full licence →
Old Control Tower, Rackheath The watch office of the WWII RAF / USAAF Rackheath airbase, recently restored as offices after many years of extreme dereliction (and narrowly escaping being demolished).
ⓘ licence & creditGareth Hughes / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Control_Tower,_Rackheath_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1166606.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditassumed USAAF / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:467bg-b242.jpgView source & full licence →
ⓘ licence & creditassumed USAAF / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:467bg-b241.jpgView source & full licence →

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