RAF Wendling
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RAF Wendling opened in Norfolk in 1943 as a United States Army Air Forces base, Station 118. It was home to the 392nd Bombardment Group, whose Consolidated B-24 Liberators flew on the Eighth Air Force’s daylight campaign from late 1943 to the end of the war. The Americans left afterwards and the airfield was largely cleared, becoming a turkey farm; a granite obelisk stands in memory of the 392nd.
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