EIGHTH AIR FORCE BASE CONTACTS IN ENGLAND
Eighth Air Force
BG/FG Airfield contacts in England
FIRST AIR DIVISION
http://firstairdivision.webs.com
The official web site for the 1st Air Division Headquarters Heritage Society
UK contact: Jeff Hawley Email: firstadhq@yahoo.co.uk
Airfields & Aviation Memorials by Richard Flagg:
http://www.ukairfields.org.uk/
He titles his work Remembering the past – “Airfields & Aviation Memorials” – researching old airfields and aviation memorials of the UK
91st BG
Bassingbourn Tower
Chris and Amy Murphy
Email: towermuseum.121@btinternet.com
Tel: +44 1763 243 500
website: www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk
92nd Bomb Group
Podington
Gerry Darnell-airfield point of contact
HISTORIAN / ARCHIVIST
92nd Bomb Group
Gregory Alexander
HISTORIAN / 92nd Bomb Group (UK)
Robert Hutchings
303rd Bomb Group
Molesworth
Robin Beeby
Gary L. Moncur
303rd Bomb Group Historian
“The Molesworth Pilot” Editor
Molesworth access
historian Mr. Peter Park at peter.park@jac.eucom.mil
305th Bomb Group
Chelveston
Ian White
305th BGMA UK Contact
MK41 7JS. England
Ian D. White
Vice President
305th BGMA UK-EU Contact
Group Historian
Hon Life Associate Member
306th BG Airfield Museum
Contact: 306museum@nscmh.fsnet.co.uk
Website: http://www.306bg.co.uk/
Thurleigh
Ralph Franklin
National School Cottage, Mill Hill
Keysoe, Beds MK44 2HP
Telephone 011-44-1234-708715
379th Bomb Group
Kimbolton
Chris Chandler
https://www.facebook.com/chris.chandler.982
381st Bomb Group
Ridgewell
Chris Tennet Historian for the Ridgewell Airfield Commemorative Museum and am always happy to be contact for Ridgewell Airfield/381st Bomb Group
email: chris.tennet@yahoo.co.uk
landline 011+44 1787 375139
Email would be my preferred method of contact,
David Osborne Group Historian parhamairfield@yahoo.co.uk
384th BG Airfield
Grafton Underwood Airfield on the UK Control Towers Website: </spanhttp://www.controltowers.co.uk/G/GraftonUnderw.htm
Offical 384th Contact: Matt Smith matt384nexgen@hotmail.co.uk
Other Contact: Bernard Bigley fortress.b17@btopenworld.com
Other Contact: Guy Muller guys1943dodge@hotmail.com
Other Contact: Nigel Labrum nigel.labrum@btopenworld.com
Matt Smith
England
398th Bomb Group
Nuthampsted
Marilyn Gibb Rice and Geoff Rice (398th BGMA President) and her husband are domiciled here in the UK and they take care of all the 398th visitors –
Email: Geoffrice@398th.org
Email: crewpictures@398th.org
401st Bomb Group
Deenthorpe
Paul Bellamy
Email:paulbellamy1939@hotmail.com
Formal UK contact for the 401st Graham Bratley-
457th Bomb Group
Glatton
Jerry Wright
Glatton Airfield Contact
Tim Newell-Historian
Phone:
From States: 011 44 1487 830450
From UK: 01487 830450
Email: tim.newell@ticali.co.uk
482nd Bomb Group (P)
Alconbury
Paul Bellamy
Email:
Ray Corby was/is the UK 482BG contact,
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SECOND AIR DIVISION
44th Bomb Group
Shipdham
UK Representative:
Steve Adams
Phone: 011-44-1603-400221
e-mail: stephenadams2009@btinternet.com
93rd Bomb Group
Hardwick Airfield
Contact
Colon Mann
Lunesdale ,swanton road Dereham Norfolk NR20 4PS
Tel 01362 691819
email colinjmann64@gmail.com
Historian:
Don Morrison
389th Bomb Group Memorial Exhibition Hethel.
e.mail: hethel389@hotmail.co.uk
Text Anne
392nd Bomb Group
Wendling
Contact: John Gilbert
Email: John@b24.net
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446th BG Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum:
Website: </spanhttp://www.aviationmuseum.net/
448th BG Seething Airfield:
Website: </spanhttp://www.flyseething.talktalk.net//
466th BG Attlebridge: Contact: Paul Hindle Visitor Center at Airfield.
Call 859-314-1936 – Chris Brassfield
489th BG Halesworth Airfield Museum:
Website: </spanhttp://www.halesworthairfieldmuseum.org.uk/museum/
492nd Bomb Group, 801st BS
Harrington Airfield
The Carpetbaggers
Roy Tebbutt enquiries@harringtonmuseum.org.uk
Fred West. Tel 01536 711556
THIRD AIR DIVISION
34th Bomb Group
Mendlesham Airfield Association
valortovictorymuseum@hotmail.co.uk
Post
Valor to Victory Museum
Ashlea, Norwich Road
94th BG Rougham Tower Museum and Base: Rougham
Contact: Ted Coleman tedcoleman@btinternet.com
Tele: 011+44+9737139
Website: http://www.rougham.org/
Emails: tower@rougham.org
roughamcontroltowermuseum@gmail.com
95th Bomb Group
Horham Airfield Red Feather Club
James Mutton
Email: jamesmutton@suffolkonline.net
Tele: 011 +44+1728860930
Alan Roper
Email: alan@agr.me.uk
Tele:011+44+1379 676623
95th BG Hospital Museum:
Contact: Tony tony@albrow.org
Website: http://www.hexpek.co.uk/95thbghm/index.htm
96th Bomb Group
Snetterton Heath Museum
Geoff Ward-Group Historian & Base contact
Email: gdmh.w33@tiscali.co.uk
100th Bomb Group
Thorpe Abbotts Tower Museum
Ron & Carol Batley
Email: 100bgmm@tiscali.co.uk
Tele: 011 44 1379 740708
Debra Hubbard- Hubbsholland@hotmail.com
011+44+7964073750
385th Bomb Group
Great Ashfield
Ian McLachlan
385th BG Historian
388th BG Museum and Airfield
Knettishall
Contact: Dave Sarson at collection@388th.com
388th Bomb Group Collection
Contact: Hillside Farm, Market Weston, Diss, IP22 2NX,
tele: 011+ 44+1359 221147
390th Bomb Group
Parham Airfield
Tim Brett
The 390th Bomb Group Memorial Air Museum
Parham Airfield Museum
Parham
Framlingham
Suffolk
England
IP13 9AF
Telephone: 011+44+1728 621373 (please email in closed season)
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Sian & Tony Francis
Email: sianfrancis@me.com
Email: tony.francis@me.com
447th Bomb Group
Rattlesden
Roger Watts 011-44-144-973-6687
Ernest Osborne 011-44-128-476-2899
452nd Bomb Group
Deopham Green Airfield
Website: http://452ndbombgroupassociation-deophamgreen.org/history/
486th Bomb Group
Sudbury Airfield
&
487th Bomb Group
Lavenham Airfield
Contact The Swan in Lavenham.
490th BG Airfield
Contact: Des Buck </spanDesbuck@aol.com
490th Bomb Group
Eye Airfield
Eric Swain Historian
Base Contacts
Clive Stevens
07799476169 mobile
Willow Cottage
Brome
Eye,
Suffolk
IP23 8AL, United Kingdom
Jackie Aling
Fersfield Airfield
Colin Noble,
Willow Bank Farm,
Airfield Road, Fersfield, Norfolk.
493rd Bomb Group
Debach Airfield:
493rd Bomb Group Museum
Grove Farm
Clopton
Woodbridge
Suffolk
IP13 6QS
England
Mobile Tel.011+44+7850 078 432
email: richardfgt@btconnect.com
Website; http://www.493bgdebach.co.uk/contact-us.php
FIGHTER GROUPS
20th Fighter Group
Mike Murray
-Can help with King’s Cliff so either 20th Fighter Group,
very early 56th Fighter Group
very overlooked 347th Fighter Squadron, 350th Fighter Group!
56th Fighter Group
Buzz Took – 56th Museum at Halesworth
Nigel Julian- Historian
Email: wolfpack56@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/
78th Fighter Group
Duxford
Chris Reynolds
55th FG at Nuthamstead
Russ Abbey
Email: shabbyabbey@hotmail.com
352nd Fighter Group
Bodney
Bodney is now a closed base owned by the government and you must get special permission to enter.
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361st Fighter Group
Bottisham airfield
Jason Webb
Email jasonwebb@bottishamairfieldmuseum.org.uk
OTHER IMPORTANT CONTACTS IN UK:
FOTE- Friends of the Eighth
Ron MacKay
email: rafaafb17@sky.com
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Roger Freeman Collection
Roger Freeman photo collection
Project Leader, American Air Museum in Britain
IWM Duxford
Tel: +44 (0)1223 497209
http://projects.americanairmuseum.com/
Lucy May Maxwell
Research Officer, American Air Museum
IWM Duxford
http://projects.americanairmuseum.com/
Peter Randall
US 8th Air Force Little Friends Site
Also hosting the Official Site of the
Fighting Scouts of the 8th Air Force
Email: seldom38uk@yahoo.co.uk
Malcolm Osborn
Loss of the 8th and 9th Air Forces in WW2
email: malcolm.osborn@gmail.com
East Anglia Books
Marilyn Bishop
email: sales@eastangliabooks.com
Proprietor
EAST ANGLIA BOOKS
PO Box 12408
Stansted, Essex
Tel: 44 (0) 1279 813791
Website: www.eastangliabooks.com
Call +44 1279 813791
