RAF Metfield

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! RAF Metfield is a former United States Army Air Force station in England. It is located just to the southeast of the village of Metfield in Suffolk. Metfield was built as a standard, Class-A bomber design airfield, consisting of three intersecting concrete runways, fifty dispersal points and two T-2 type hangars. Additional buildings were also erected to house about 2,900 personnel on former farmland to the southwest. When it was constructed in 1943, it necessitated the closure of the B1123 road between Halesworth and Harleston. The airfield was built for the United States Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force as a hevy bomber field. During World War II it was known as USAAF Station 366. Metfield was one of the most isolated Eighth Air Force stations in Suffolk. Metfield was not used by the Air Ministry after World War II ended and for years it sat abandoned and empty. In 1964/65, the airfield and support buildings were sold to private individuals. Metfield was returned to agricultrual use, however the site of the bomb dump explosion could be seen for many years as a water-filled lake.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786130394530
• ISBN-10: 6130394535
• Artikelnr.: 29732174