491st & 492nd Bomber Group (RAF North Pickenham Airfield) Memorial
Details:
On the edge of Brecklands Green
MonumentA black marble tablet containing the engraved inscription. At the top is the 8th Air Force badge (the flying 8 ball) and each side of this is an etched depiction of a Consolidated B24 Liberator bomber. The tablet is mounted into a Norfolk napped Flint pier surrounded by a red brick wall. A small planter is in front of the wall on either side.
The memorial remembers the 491st and 492nd Bomber Groups which flew from RAF North Pickenham (USAAF Station 143) during WW2.
Source:
https://www.iwm.org.uk; https://www.americanlibrary.uk/
Monument Text:
IN THE MEMORY TO
THE MEN OF THE USAAF
WHO FLEW FROM
NORTH PICKENHAM
1944-1945
492ND BG
APRIL 1944-AUGUST 1944
491ST BG
AUGUST1944-MAY1945
Commemorates:
Units:
491st Bomber Group (Heavy)
492nd Bomber Group
852nd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy
853rd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy
854th Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group
855rd Bomber Squadron, 491st Bomber Group, Heavy
856th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group
857th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomber Group
858th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, Heavy
859th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, Heavy
8th Air Force
Wars:
WWII
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