44th Bombardment Group at Shipdham
- History
- Shipdham Airfield (Station 115)
- Remaining buildings
- Memorials
- Museum
- Bibliography and website
- Images
Bibliography and website
There are several good histories of the 44th Bomb Group available for use in the Second Air Division Memorial Library.
Among those histories are:
- Turner Publishing: 44th Bomb Group: The Flying Eightballs
- Ron Mackay: The 44th Bomb Group in World War II: The 'Flying Eightballs' over Europe
- Will Lundy: 44th Bomb Group Roll of Honor and Casualties
Information about the individual bases comes from George H Fox's 8th Air Force Remembered
For more on the history of the airfield, see:
- Martin Bowman: Bomber Bases of WW2: 2nd Air Division 8th Air Force USAAF 1942-1945
- Michael Bowyer: Action Stations Revisited: the complete history of Britain's military airfields Volume 1 Eastern England
- Ken Delve: The Military Airfields of Britain: East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk)
- Roger Freeman: Airfields of the Eighth Then and Now
Related website
If you're interested in the history of the 44th Bomb Group, you may find their website useful.