RAF Snetterton Heath
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RAF Snetterton Heath opened in Norfolk in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 138. It was home to the 96th Bombardment Group, whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses flew on the Eighth Air Force’s daylight campaign, taking part in the costly Regensburg shuttle and Schweinfurt raids. The Americans left after the war, and from 1952 the old runways and perimeter track became the Snetterton motor-racing circuit, still in use today.
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