Memorial to 3d Strategic Air Depot, USAAF
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Memorial to 3d Strategic Air Depot, USAAF
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 11 Oct 2018
RAF Watton and the village of Griston were closely entwined during WW2. The Airbase was used by the United States Army Air Force's Eighth Air Force as a major overhaul depot for Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers and as a weather reconnaissance base 1943 - 1945
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