Qualla: RAF Attlebridge https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/g/raf-attlebridge-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: RAF Attlebridge https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge RAF Attlebridge: Introduction https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge/ Photo credit Pipin81, CC BY-SA 3.0. The runway was 1,220 yards when 88 Squadron RAF arrived with their Bristol Blenheims in August 1941. By the time the 466th Bombardment Group's Consolidated B-24 Liberators were leaving the same patch of Norfolk in 1944, the main strip was 2,000 yards long and the perimeter track wound past fifty hardstands. To get from one to the other, the Americans bulldozed several country roads in the parish of Weston Longville, closed three crossings, and put down enough concrete to land a fully-loaded heavy bomber. Attlebridge was Station 120, eight miles northwest of Norwich, and for two and a half years it was a small piece of Louisiana, Kansas, and California parked in the East Anglian countryside.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/g/raf-attlebridge-wp/u12g-raf-attlebridge-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full RAF Attlebridge: Blenheims and Bostons https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge/ Photo credit Evelyn Simak, CC BY-SA 2.0. RAF Attlebridge was already an operational field when the war was new. No. 88 (Hong Kong) Squadron - one of the RAF units that had carried Hong Kong's name since the late 1930s - flew Bristol Blenheim IV light bombers from here from August 1941, then Douglas Bostons, the American...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/g/raf-attlebridge-wp/u12g-raf-attlebridge-blenheims-and-bostons.mp3 0:06 2 full RAF Attlebridge: Station 120 https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge/ Photo credit Jerzy Kociatkiewicz from Colchester, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 30 September 1942 the airfield was transferred to the U.S. Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force as Station 120, part of the 2nd Bomb Wing. The first American flying unit arrived from Harding Field, Louisiana on 12 September - the 319th Bombardment Group with Martin B-26 Marauders...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/g/raf-attlebridge-wp/u12g-raf-attlebridge-station-120.mp3 0:06 3 full RAF Attlebridge: The 466th Bombardment Group https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge/ Photo credit assumed USAAF, Public domain. The 466th Bombardment Group arrived on 7 March 1944 and stayed until 6 July 1945. They flew Consolidated B-24 Liberators - the boxy, slab-sided long-range heavy bomber that did the unglamorous half of the U.S. strategic bombing campaign in Europe. Their tail code was a Circle-L; ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/2/g/raf-attlebridge-wp/u12g-raf-attlebridge-the-466th-bombardment-group.mp3 0:06 4 full RAF Attlebridge: After the Storm https://qualla.com/raf-attlebridge/ Photo credit assumed USAAF, Public domain. When the 466th flew home in July 1945 the airfield went quiet. Attlebridge was officially closed as a military base in 1950. The runways were broken up. Some of the surface returned to farmland, some became local roads, some still exists in fragments where the wartime concrete is...

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