Thanks chaps, and here's the first instalment of the recent "Travels".
Old Buckenham airfield memorial and museum.
Old Buckenham airfield is located to the north west of the campsite, just a short, twenty minute drive away, through narrow country lanes and rather attractive villages.
Today, only a short part of one of the original WW2 runways is in use, for club flying and the annual air show, which Karl and I attended for the second year running at the end of July, as previously reported.
During WW2, it was home to the B-24s of the 453rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), and the actor James Stewart served here as Exec Officer, flying on operations over Germany. Another well-known actor, Walter Matthau, also served here as an NCO ground crewman.
Although there is a small museum and a memorial on the field, it was far too busy to visit these on air show day, so we returned to have a good look around, on a sunny day, with a couple of visiting aircraft landing to have lunch, and a Cessna carrying out student pilot training.
The Memorial is a large stone in the shape of a B-24 tail fin, enclosed in a neatly kept, fenced garden, as shown in the pics below, with the museum being housed in an original Nissen hut (Quonset hut to our American cousins), where an interesting collection of 453rd BG artefacts, uniforms and other memorabilia can be viewed, free of charge.
The first few pics below show the airfield as it is now, and during WW2 (B&W image copyright free, from American Air Museum in Britain), along with the original Nissen hut housing the museum, and the Memorial and garden. Look closely at the B&W photo, and the Nissen hut can be seen in the bottom, left corner, between the "spectacle" dispersals.
More to come in the following posts ..................