RAF Tibenham

52.4558, 1.1560 — view on OpenStreetMap ↗

About

RAF Tibenham opened in Norfolk in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 124. It was home to the 445th Bombardment Group, whose Consolidated B-24 Liberators flew on the Eighth Air Force’s daylight campaign; the Hollywood actor James Stewart served as one of its squadron commanders, and the group suffered grievous losses on the disastrous Kassel mission of September 1944. The Americans left in 1945, and since 1960 the airfield has been home to the Norfolk Gliding Club.

Sources: This page was compiled from publicly available historical sources, including RAF Tibenham — Wikipedia and Tibenham — Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust. The text is original and has been written from factual source material; no source text has been copied unless specifically quoted and attributed.

Photographs

B-24s of the 445th Bombardment Group, based at RAF Tibenham, England.
ⓘ licence & creditassumed USAAF / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:445bg-b-24.jpgView source & full licence →
Aerial postwar photo of Tibenham Airfield, England. NOTE : this is the original version with South East approximately at top.
ⓘ licence & creditBritish Government / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tibenhamairfield-original.jpgView source & full licence →
Postwar aerial photograph of Tibenham Airfield, England.
ⓘ licence & creditBritish Government / Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tibenhamairfield-1945.pngView source & full licence →

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