More English Air Base Photos

Road to Bomb Dump, Horham. (Most of these photos will supersize if you double-click them. You'll get a lot more detail.)
95th Bomb Group Hospital, Horham.
Perimeter Taxiway, Horham.
34th BG Indian on Bomb, a piece of wall removed and displayed at the 95th Museum.
Singing farmer, on display at 390th Base.

'Tony' Anthony, (L) who was an RAF officer at Horham during the war, poses with his beautifully restored American staff car. My good friend Alan Johnson, whom I stayed with in Horham, is at right.
Inside a bomb shelter, Horham.
Hospital CO's office, 95th BG Base Hospital, Horham.
Old 100th buildings, Thorpe Abbotts.

100th Bomb Group hut.
390th Bomb Group Theater.
390th Bomb Group Tower.
100th Bomb Group Operations Office.
Bomb Shelter.

44th Bomb Group, Shipdam, Today

I'm posting some photos taken by British aviation historian Trevor Hewitt.

They were taken at the old 44th BG Base at Shipdam, England. I have several friends who served at this base, Dan Culler and Will Lundy, so perhaps they will be able to shed some light on the places shown.

The 44th was a famous B-24 Liberator unit that flew the amazing Ploesti mission.

Photos of Air Bases in England Today

If you imagine it, you can hear the roar of the engines as Flying Fortresses line up to fly a mission to Germany. Many never returned.

The ruins of the control tower at Beccles.

One of the surviving murals that was painted in the 95th Bomb Group's Red Feather Club. The Horham Base is now a museum.

The 95th Bomb Group hospital at Horham today.

At an abandoned air base in East Anglia, a window overlooks a farm field nearby.

The control tower at one base has been redone.


Parham control tower, Open Day.