2011

TM1780 : USAAF Communal Site A, Upper Billingford

taken 13 years ago, near to Upper Street, Norfolk, England

USAAF Communal Site A, Upper Billingford
USAAF Communal Site A, Upper Billingford
This was the water treatment plant. During the war, RAF Thorpe Abbotts (USAAF station 139) was home to airmen of the 100th Bomb Group. There used to be some seventy such sites spread across East Anglia, which for two years during World War II had become launch pads for USAAF's bombing raids into occupied Europe. Each airfield was home to 2000-3000 airmen, most of them volunteers. These sites became known as 'The Fields of Little America' - this is one of them. The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, dedicated to the USAAF's famous 'Bloody Hundredth' Bomb Group of WWII, is housed in the original airfield control tower > Link near Thorpe Abbotts: LinkExternal link (Archive LinkExternal link )

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Category: Airfield building
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Water Treatment Plant [2] Other Photos: · USAAF Communal Site A, Upper Billingford Title Clusters: · USAAF Communal Site A, Upper Billingford [13] ·
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TM1780, 71 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Evelyn Simak   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 2 April, 2011   (more nearby)
Submitted
Saturday, 2 April, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TM 177 802 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:22.6400N 1:11.8814E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TM 178 802
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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