RAF Steeple Morden
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RAF Steeple Morden opened in Cambridgeshire in 1940 and was handed to the United States Army Air Forces as Station 122. It was the long-term home of the 355th Fighter Group, whose Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and then North American P-51 Mustangs flew bomber escort and ground-attack sweeps over the Continent, winning a Distinguished Unit Citation for a strafing attack on German airfields. The Americans left in 1946 and the airfield has almost entirely returned to farmland.
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assumed USAAF / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:355th_Fighter_Group.jpgView source & full licence →ⓘ licence & credit
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