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Hardwick
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1944
(© USAAF)
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Hardwick
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Airfield Today:
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Agriculture
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Tower Type:
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Watch Office with Met
section 518/40
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Tower:
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Demolished
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Other
Buildings:
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None
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History:
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9/42 to 11/42, 310th BG with B-25 Mitchells.12/42 to 6/45, 328th, 329th, 330th and 409th Bombardment Squadrons of the 93rd Bombardment Group (Heavy) 'The Travelling Circus' with B-24 Liberators moved here from Alconbury. 6/43 to 8/43, Detatched to North Africa for the Ploesti mission and again 9/43 to 10/43 for the invasion of Italy. Flew 330+ missions from Hardwick and another 49 from Africa. 
6/45
to 6/62, Transferred to Bomber Command but not used.
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1944
'Sweating out a Mission' (© Montie L.
Guthrie Jr, via Bob Stewart)
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Link
to Montie's Hardwick photographs 1943-45
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8th USAAF Station
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Airfield:
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Operational Bomber
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Opened:
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9/1942
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Closed:
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6/1962
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ID Code:
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HC
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USAAF Station:
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104
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Runways:
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3 concrete, tarmac
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Hangars:
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3x - T2
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County:
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Norfolk
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Location:
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5 miles W of Bungay
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OS Ref:
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TM248906
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Links:
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©:
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All photographs ©
Montie L. Guthrie Jr, thanks also to Bob Stewart for scanning them all!
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'Crash
Crew' on duty by the control tower
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RAF
Hardwick airfield - 93rd BG
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RAF
Hardwick airfield + control tower 93rd BG = www.controltowers.co.uk ©
robert truman 2003
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