Former RAF Deopham Green

 Second World War 1939-1945, abandoned / shut down, RAF - Royal Air Force, draw only border, closed / former military, historical layer / disappeared object

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USAAF Station 142

RAF Deopham Green was built in 1942 and 1943 for the USAAF and assigned designation Station 142.

452nd Bombardment Group (Heavy)
The group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses as part of the Eighth Air Force's strategic bombing campaign.The group flew a total of 250 missions from Deopham Green during the war, losing 110 of its bombers in the course of these operations.

After the war, the field was handed back to RAF Maintenance Command on 9 October 1945. Public roads, closed when construction started in 1942, were later re-opened, one of them using part of the old main runway, the airfield finally being closed on 1 January 1948.

Over the years most of the buildings have been torn down and the airfield has been returned to agricultural use. However many of the runways and taxiways of the old airfield remain, albeit at a reduced width. There is a memorial on the side of the road running through the site, another outside Hingham Church and another at Attleborough railway station.

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