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								The airfield is nearer to Upper Holton than Halesworth does anyone have any memories or their own photos to share? 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Hopton & Pakefield
					
					
					
					
						
					
					
						
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								This base was once in Suffolk and was part of the Home Chain RADAR Stations, I don't think there was an airfield here but its role was as important as Darsham and Bawdsey in the early warning detection system 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Acton/Sudbury
					
					
						
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								The USAAF had this airfield for a short while in WWII operating Liberators and was placed on a care and maintenance basis after WWII, it was to be upgraded for USAF work in the 1950's but this never materialised.  I know Sudbury well, but have only been to Acton Church once and never been to the old airfi... 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Trimley Heath
					
					
					
					
						
					
					
						
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								I cannot remember a RAF Station here but there are still some old Blocks/Buildings near to the Bucklesham Road/A14 Road Junction, there used to be one in the middle of the field alongside the A14 just outside the periphery of Trimley St Martin  I do know that a Radio/RADAR station was connected here to R... 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Stradishall
					
					
						
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								I arrived at RAF Stradishall, Suffolk in September 1965, this was the RAF’s No: 1 School of Air Navigation. The station operated Varsities, Meteor NF14’s, a Meteor T7 and the newly acquired Dominies.   My job as an engine fitter was to report to No: 1                   Hangar Station Servicing Flight on Meteors but a...          
							 
							
						 
						
					
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								The USAAF moved in to Eye in 1944 and moved out after cessation of hostilities in 1945, I have no historical records of the base other than what I have read in books, so if anyone has any memories or photos of their own they can share please do so 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Horham
					
					
						
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								The only thing I recall here is that well after the USAAF left the site the base was put into Care & Maintenance and that Bloodhound Ground to Air Missiles were based here  I seem to remember an incident that someone once told me that after D-Day the USAAF took an extended flight to the Warsaw area and d... 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Darsham
					
					
						
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								Again this was like Hopton and Bawdsey and involves a Home Chain RADAR base, I was once asked if I knew anything about the history of Darsham, at that time I could not find out anything on the Internet.  Someone did tell me that all that is left now are the concrete bases that supported the masts  
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					Orfordness
					
					
					
					
						
					
					
						
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								With the close proximity of Orfordness to MH there must have been some connection regarding research, as both these stations along with MAEE and Bawdsey [RADAR] were researching different things it all involved aviation of sorts.  Anyone with a connection.......  -- Edited by John Cooper on Friday...       
							 
							
						 
						
					
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					RAF Elveden Hall
					
					
					
					
						
					
					
						
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								http://mighty8thaf.preller.us/php/1Loc.php?Base=ElvedenHall 
							 
							
						 
						
					
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