Old Buckenham, England,1945, 453rd Bomb Group, 735 Squadron
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RAF Old Buckenham, Norfolk - USAAF Station 144 - A History
Old Buckenham, 2 miles south of Attleborough in Norfolk was the base for the USAAF 8th AF 453rd Bomb Group from 23 December 1943 until 9th May 1945
The 453rd flew 259 missions, lost 58 Aircraft in action and claimed 42 enemy destroyed, 12 probables and 19 damaged.
Music Credits
Frenesi - Artie Shaw
St Louis Blues March - Glenn Miller & the Army Air Corps Orchestra
Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller Orchestra
Perfidia - Glenn Miller Orchestra
453rd BG(H): memorials at Old Buckenham, station 144
Memorials to the 453rd BG(H) of the USAAF Eighth Air Force who served at Old Buckenham airfield 1943-1945. It has two main strands: the memorial on the airfield itself and the recently completed museum of 453rd artefacts. Together these give a flavour of the central role that memory of the 453rd plays in the present day life of the airfield.
Old Buckenham England 453 BG Ceremony 1945
453rd BG Ceremony 1945
466th Bomb Group U.S. Army Air Corps
This is the story of a group of men who made up the 466th Bomb Group. They flew B-24 Liberators. They were part of the 96th Combat Wing, 2nd Air Division, 8th Airforce during the Second World War. They flew combat missions out of Attlebridge, England between March of 1944 to April 1945.
Grey Geese Remembered: The History of the 11th Bomb Group
Interviews and commentary on the 11th Group's experience in the Pacific during WWII, from Pearl Harbor to Midway
clip of the 704th and 707th squadrons of the 446th Bomb Group
In formation and landing at the Flixton base after a mission, ca. 1944. Unpublished and to my knowledge previously un-seen by the public, this footage was acquired on May 21st 2014 by Christopher Tompkins, nephew of 704th squadron pilot Alva J. Tompkins (1923-1944).
The complete 446th Bomb Group footage acquired this month.
Includes the entire length of the incredible *unpublished* 8 mm film that I acquired from Mr. Huby Fairhead, volunteer at Flixton Air base near Bungay, England, in June 2014.
NOTE* - I was just informed that this is merely a copy of the (un-published) higher quality original footage, which may be longer as well. To my knowledge, it is the only film footage known of both 446th planes flying together in combat formation that *also* includes (even rarer) rare footage of Flixton air base, home of the 446th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force.
This 10 minute film features -
1. 707th squadron Gerty the Gremlin crew footage, on ground with plane at Flixton
2. footage of Gerty in mission formation including upside down taken from ball turret of the rest of its squadron
3. footage of planes from the 704th squadron
4. footage of landing after mission at Flixton
5. Gerty the Gremlin crew footage post mission
--Christopher Tompkins, nephew of 704th pilot Alva J. Tompkins.
466th Bomb Group RETURN TO ATTLEBRIDGE 2012 TRAILER.mov
Memorial Day 2012 return of veterans and their families to Attlebridge Air Base in England.
Interview with 466th Bomb Group veterans and local people, who grew up in the area during WWII. A Memorial service for the 333 Bomb Group Members who did not survive the war. 57 minute video is available for $36 from billcurtisvideoproduction.com,
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BD-0031 421 RCAF Squadron World War Two Footage
Narrated film showing No. 421 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force at the end of World War Two. The narrator is Richard Beall.
From the archives of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Please do not use for commercial purposes without permission.
Airfield History - RAF Thorpe Abbotts - The Bloody 100th
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this history and tribute to the men of the Bloody 100th has taken a lot longer to make than i anticipated..but it's done now..
still very ill so don't expect any more for a week or two
Liberators Over Europe - 446BG Part 3 of 3
The third and final installment of 446th Bomb Group B-24 Liberator mission film scenes shows bombs-away, Liberators over Europe, and B-24 waist gunners in cramped proximity to each other. The damaged B-24 seen in an earlier installment is inspected on the ground in England; torn sheetmetal waves in the breeze as the Liberator is towed to parking. The normally white star and bars of the national insignia have been oversprayed a dull gray to diminish their visibility, a fairly common practice for bombers in the Eighth Air Force. This raw footage is just a part of thousands and thousands of feet of movie film shot by the Army Air Forces during World War II.
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Ploesti attackers-093 BG 43 8AF B 24 UK Ploesti
93rd BG B-24s take off, probably on the very flight to Africa, where it was very active with 9 AF's units, including Ploesti raid.
98th Bomb Group -- The Pyramiders -- B-24D Liberators
Scenes from AAF footage depict the B-24Ds of the 98th Bomb Group around the time they were moving from Libya to Tunisia circa September 1943. Great takeoff and landing shots in the desert; great nose art. Want more? Check the Airailimages Big Bombers Playlist at:
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B 24 Liberator #42 7554, “Tail End Charlie”, 445th BG, 702nd BS
B-24 #42-7554 ~ Commemoration & Memorial event held 15 NOV 2015 at Mirns / Bakhuizen, Friesland, the Netherlands. Present and hosted by the Stitching Missing Memorial Foundation of Leeuwarden, Friesland, The Netherlands.
On 22 DEC 1943 this B-24 of the 445th Bomb Group, 702nd Bomb Squadron crashed through a bell tower in the cemetery in Mirns, then crashed into a field beyond the cemetery. 7 of the 10 aircrew perished.
1Lt John H. Allen - Pilot - KIA
2Lt Erwin J. Bevins, Jr. - Co-pilot - Evaded capture.
2Lt Joseph F. Gill, Jr. - Navigator - POW - Survived.
2Lt Anthony L. Destro - Bombardier - KIA
TSgt John R. Elder -Engineer/Aerial Gunner - Drowned/KIA
TSgt James C. Owens - Engineer/Aerial Gunner - KIA
TSgt Oscar Robbins, Jr. - Radio Operator - KIA
SSgt Joseph J. Pavelko - Aerial Gunner - KIA
SSgt Harry L. Henry - Aerial Gunner - POW / Survived
SSgt Everett M. Odom - Aerial Gunner - KIA
445BG VETERANS INTERVIEW
An impromptu interview with two WWII veterans of the 445th Bomb Group, a B-24 Liberator group based at Tibenham, England. (We had originally planned to do the interview in a local air museum where there was no background noise, but due to varied circumstances we had to interview at the TICO Air Show in Titusville, FL on March 10, 2017. Some background noise was attempted to be removed, but wound up cutting some of their voices out, so it was left as is. You can view the video by adjusting your left and right speakers buttons to minimize some of the background noise.) Their stories are fascinating. What happened to these men could've happened to my father and his crew since these men flew in the same formation and flight elements as my father on many of the same missions in late 1943 and early 1944.
The Way It Was - Part 3
The 401st Bomb Group Association. A perspective in photos, videos and music of the group air base at Deenethorpe, England The 401st Bomb Group, based at Deenethorpe, England.
All photographs are public domain provided by the United States government. All audio is courtesy of United States Air Force and is freely available for download and fair use from
Historic video incorporated into this presentation was produced by the U.S. Governement and is public domain. Music incorporated is provided by and with permission of the United States Air Force Band and not used for commercial gain. Other video and slides are the work of this channel owner.
Copyright claims from some German publishing house are obviously false.
The Friendly Invasion project - Visit East of England, UK
Visit East Anglia, supported by Visit Britain and its Discover England Fund, is leading on developing The Friendly Invasion product to encourage more visitors to experience the region where over 350,000 US Air Force servicemen were based during World War II.
Their arrival from 1942 created the biggest landscape and cultural impact of any event in the East of England since the Norman Conquest 900 years earlier. The Americans brought with them chewing gum, peanut butter, jazz, Swing, nylons, Coca Cola, and within a short time had created over 100 miles of concrete runways cut into quiet East Anglian farmland.
It was The Friendly Invasion - when the United States changed the East of England forever.
UK volunteers still honor US airmen, 75 years after D-Day
UK volunteers still honor US airmen, 75 years after D-Day TOPCROFT, England – David Woodrow, 95, raises the American flag beside a memorial on his farm in eastern England every morning, weather permitting. He makes sure that memorial is tip-top, too. Dedicated to the U.S. Army Air Force's 93rd Bombardment Group Heavy , it is surrounded by irises and geraniums Woodrow planted himself. The grass is trimmed to the millimeter. The granite gleams. There's one thing for certain: If Americans hadn't come over here and went to Normandy with us in '44 and the Germans had pushed us back into the sea, we couldn't have gone back again for another two or three years, Woodrow, a D-Day veteran himself, said when asked why he put it there. By that time, Germany would have had the bomb first and they would have won the war. They would have won the war then — if Normandy had failed. As the wartime allies prepare to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, people around Britain are also remembering the Americans who paved the way for the invasion, including sailors who helped keep supplies flowing across the North Atlantic and air crews that flew bombing missions over occupied Europe. From 1942 to 1945, more than 2 million U.S. military personnel were stationed in Britain. People across the country still commemorate that friendly invasion, which bolstered the nation's defenses and gave many their first taste of America. From Portpatrick on the west coast of Scotland, where a plaque marks the site of a plane crash that killed 22 American airmen, to the Norfolk farm where Woodrow raises Old Glory, Britain is dotted with memorials to U.S. servicemen. Some are formal affairs funded by public money, like the Cambridge American Cemetery, which houses the remains of 3,811 war dead, and the American Air Museum a few miles away, where the silhouettes of 7,031 lost aircraft are etched into a curving wall of glass. But most are impromptu shrines built and tended by local people to honor those who died and to remember the thousands of others they drank and danced and fought with. There was no government master plan to make this happen. The memorials just sprang up organically, particularly in southeastern England, where most of the U.S. air bases were located because of the proximity to occupied Europe. Volunteers look after memorials in village squares, on corners of former airfields, at crash sites. Museums have been placed in former control towers. World War II memorabilia collections are preserved in pubs. One of these personal monuments made headlines earlier this year, when 82-year-old Tony Foulds persuaded the U.S. Air Force to stage a fly-past to honor 10 American airmen who died in a crash in the northern city of Sheffield in 1944. Foulds, who believes the pilot saved his life by steering away from a field where he was playing with other children, has tended a memorial to the airmen since 1969.Thousands rose at dawn in February to gaze at the fly-past. No surprise there, said Briton Mike Warner, who serves as informal liaison between the U.S. Air Force and local communities. These individuals fought alongside our own forces, he said. One place that decided to pay tribute is Redlingfield, a village 100 miles 160 kilometers northeast of London, which built a black granite memorial to 2nd Lt. Kenneth Rongstad and the crew of a B-17 bomber that crashed into a farmhouse on Nov. 19, 1943.Janet Norman-Philips, 66, and other locals make sure it is scrubbed and bordered with bright pansies. People wanted to remember them, said Norman-Philips, who worked with American veterans to erect the monument. They were adopted, almost. There's a reason the Americans made such an impression. Tiny rural communities, some with no running water, electricity or indoor plumbing, woke up to find construction crews pouring concrete on the flat farmland within striking distance of occupied Europe. Little Redlingfield soon had 3,000 servicemen from the Eighth Air Force as neighbors. The Americans brought not just bombers but stuff the locals couldn't get their hands on after years of war, like clothing, tinned fruit and candy. Local girls danced to swing music with American servicemen and the bases held Christmas parties for local children. It wasn't all songs and roses, though. The British were shocked by segregation in the U.S. military, and American manners — or the lack of them — sometimes clashed with the more traditional local culture. But once they got over the shock, the Brits and the Americans generally got along. James Clarey became fascinated with the story of the Americans in England as a teenager, when he found an airman's ID bracelet at a crash site near his home. He began collecting artifacts and eventually set up the 453rd Bomb Group Museum and 8th Air Force Heritage Gallery at the Old Buckenham Airfield. It's the sort of place where a pilot can still land a small plane, park it on the grass and sit on picnic ta
Black Rufe Flys Again!
Seventh or eighth flight of Black Rufe...Black Horse 1/10 scale model of RCAF 418 Sqdn DeHavilland Mosquito MKVI FB. 418 was an intruder/day ranger squadron which flew deep into Germany following a course set by the individual flight crew staying under German radar (50 feet) to the target and back. Aircraft sometimes returned with tree branches stuck on the underside.