Living in south Norfolk in England I have appreciated learning about the many used and disused airfields throughout this beautiful county. Today, most of those busy airfields have gone back to the land save for glimpses of perimeter track and runway that now serves for hay bales and beetroot and potatoes and if you were a visitor to the area or driving through you may not know about what happened there during 1943 nor would know that every few miles there were other airfields and bomb groups and air crew taking to the skies - the skies were never still, Norfolk was tagged Little America and noteably the airfield Thorpe Abbots - the 100th bomb group that was tagged the jinxed outfit, the bloody hundreth, because of the heavy losses sustained during the early campaigns. Despite many bases have long disappeared under the weeds and furrows there are many still in existence and most used for glider clubs. There are two air towers. Both have been lovingly cared for in the postwar years. The upkeep has been hard, surviving on local contributions and donations from veterans and their familes. Volunteers come from the boys that were mesmerised by their american heroes during the war years. These boys, now men, contribute to keeping these towers in good order. Both have become museums and a visitor will easily be taken back in nostalgia and in the present atmosphere with no shortage of personal letters and photographs. I have my own website featuring lovely Norfolk with pictures of its stately homes and idylic cottages, countryside and coastal beaches. I have donated a page to the american bomb groups with videos and pictures and music plus links relating to the airfields past and present. It is worth a look. You can navigate from there and see other pages in my site. I hope you enjoy your visit. Link:
http://ity.im/0dz0P