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Tibenham
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1944
(©
445th BG, USAAF via Steve Ward)
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Tibenham
airfield
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Airfield Today:
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Agriculture,
Norfolk gliding club
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Tower Type:
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Watch Office with Operations
Room, Type B 7345/41, with observation room 13079/41 and crew briefing
room
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Tower:
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Control
tower demolished January 1978
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Other
Buildings:
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Not
known
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History:
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RAF Tibenham - 445th Bomb Group - |
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1967
(©
Harry Holmes)
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1974
(© Steve Bond)
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1977
(©
Ian Woodward)
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c.1970
(©
via Paul Francis)
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1974
View from the Control Tower, signals square in the right foreground (©
Steve Bond)
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RAF
Tibenham - 445th BG -
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Airfield:
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Operational Bomber Station
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Opened:
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11/1942
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Closed:
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15/03/1959
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Code:
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TM
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USAAF Station:
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124
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Runways:
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3x - concrete, tarmac,
extended 1955
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Hangars:
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2x - T2
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County:
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Norfolk
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Location:
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13 miles SW of Norwich,
N of Diss
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OS Ref:
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TM145888
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©:
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As stated
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Tibenham
airfield - 445th BG -
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1960
(© Eastern Daily Press via Philip
Standley)
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RAF
Tibenham airfield
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'Round
and Round went the Great Big Wheel' - Operation Catherine wheel filmed
behind Tibenham's control tower for the TV series 'Dad's Army'
(series 5, episode 52)
1972 (© via Tony Pritchard) |
RAF
Tibenham airfield
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James
Stewart's post-war U.S.A.F. uniform on display at Duxford
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RAF
Tibenham airfield - James Stewart -
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445th
BG, RAF T ibenham 445th BG control
tower = www.controltowers.co.uk
© robert truman 2002 - updated 02/07/13 - Tibenham - |