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Postby maureenho » 14 Sep 2014, 17:27

We went to Hethel Memorial Museum this afternoon, I lived on the airfield about 60 years ago.

With the departure of the American squadrons, the airfield was handed over to RAF Fighter Command. It became a Personnel Transit Centre before being taken over by the RAF Technical Training Command until 1948, when the base was closed. Some of the buildings were then used as temporary housing.











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Re: Revisited after almost 60 years

Postby wendy » 14 Sep 2014, 19:06

Wow, amazing to see
I lived in huts like that in the 60's with no heating
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Re: Revisited after almost 60 years

Postby chenrezig » 14 Sep 2014, 20:13

Great pics of the wall paintings Mo, and thanks so much for sharing as they bring back some lovely memories of me n Dad being sneaked in at 7am one Sunday to get some pics as it was "rumoured" it was going to be knocked down. This is a copy of the slide that Dad took at the time ...

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Postby maureenho » 14 Sep 2014, 21:34

Yes those places were freezing cold in the winter Wendy but we survived, think it toughened us up.

liz if you get the chance to go there it's well worth it, they have done an amazing job, they are now refurbishing another Nissan hut.
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Postby chenrezig » 14 Sep 2014, 21:43

Definitely Mo, I would love to see it.

Ps near there there is an old air raid shelter that my uncle once showed me as he used to do metal detecting there
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Postby maureenho » 14 Sep 2014, 22:17

There use to be an air raid shelter in the ground with a small opening into it, my mum use to put my pram over it (with me in it) so my sister didn't fall down it.

Where was health and safety then  sp0

They are open 2nd Sunday of the month and on Saturday 8th Nov they have a memorial for remberance, and few American veterans usually come over for that, we are hoping to go along to it.
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Postby chenrezig » 15 Sep 2014, 07:34

I have found up the name of a book I checked out for my uncle before I went over to see him this year.

It is called "The Sky Scorpions", "The Story of the 389th Bomb Group", by Paul Wilson and Ron McKay. The Dewy number  is 940.544. The Second Air Division Library at the Forum has a copy that can be loaned out. It might be worth getting out as it is crammed with pictures of the aircraft and the base -it has some colour plates as well indluding the old chapel. You may be able to reserve it to get it from your local libray if you can't get it from the oen at the Forum in Norwich?

There is also this digital version of the official "Blue Book" with the 389th's official history again with loads of pictures of the planes, the base and the crew.

http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/cgi/viewco ... ww_reg_his

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Postby maureenho » 15 Sep 2014, 10:10

Thanks for that Liz, I'll look at the digital one as I'm not very good at taking Library books back on time.
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