RAF Shipdam
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RAF Shipdham, near Dereham in Norfolk, opened in 1942 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 115. It was the home of the 44th Bombardment Group — the “Flying Eightballs” — whose Consolidated B-24 Liberators flew more than 340 missions over occupied Europe, the group suffering the heaviest losses of any B-24 group in the Eighth Air Force. After the war the airfield reopened for private flying as Shipdham Airfield, home to an aero club, though it has more recently faced closure for solar-farm development.
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