We wanted to leave the last word about the remarkable history of the 8th USAAF, and their time in the…
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During the final weeks of the project we’ve worked with a number of Churches across East Anglia to provide interpretation boards…
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We were thrilled to have such a brilliant response to our new Carl Giles Exhibition – Friendship in a time…
Moving from London to Ipswich in 1943, Carl Giles worked as a war correspondent cartoonist for the Daily Express newspaper.…
The industrialisation of the rural East Anglian landscape that occurred as a result of the airfields being built left an…
The arrival of the Americans in East Anglia impacted on the lives of everybody, including children, who played in and…
With fathers, husbands and sons away in the British Forces many women were left to hold the fort. For many…
In 1944 a plane from the Eighth Air Force crashes into St Phillip’s church in the city of Norwich. Flying…
Very few GIs knew that they were being sent from America to Britain. When they arrived in East Anglia, sometimes…
In rural East Anglia, the ideal site for bombing crews to prepare for raids on Germany, newly constructed airbases had…
