RAF Sudbury
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Royal Air Force Sudbury or more simply RAF Sudbury is a former Royal Air Force station located 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Sudbury, Suffolk, England.
B-24s (Square-O) of the 486th Bomb Group. Identifiable is Ford B-24M-5-FO Liberator Serial 44-50561 of the 833d Bomb Squadron. This aircraft survived the war and was sent to RFC Walnut Ridge Arkansas on 3 January 1946 for scrapping.
B-17s (Square-W) of the 486th Bomb Group. Identifiable is Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-15-DL Fortress Serial 42-37891 of the 833d Bomb Squadron.
RAF Sudbury (August, 2022)
835th Bombardment Squadron
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The 835th Bombardment Squadron is an inactive United States Army Air Forces unit. It was activated in January 1941 as the 80th Bombardment Squadron and equipped with Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor the squadron began to fly antisubmarine patrols off the Atlantic coast and over the Caribbean Sea, becoming the 9th Antisubmarine Squadron.
Douglas B-18B equipped for antisubmarine warfare
Plaque commemorating the 15 October 1944 crash near RAF Sudbury