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467th Bombardment Group at Rackheath

Bibliography

There are several good histories of the 467th Bomb Group available for use in the American Library.

Among those histories are:

  • Peter Bodle and Perry Watts: The 467th Bomb Group in Norfolk: A Pictorial History 
  • Perry Watts: The 467th Bombardment Group (H) in World War II: in combat with the B-24 Liberator over Europe 
  • Allan Healy: The 467th Bombardment Group, September 1943 - June 1945 
  • The 467th Bombardment Group, September 1943 - June 1945, addendum errata 
  • James J Mahoney and Brian H Mahoney: Reluctant witness: memoirs from the last year of the European airwar, 1944-1945 

Information about the individual bases comes from from George H Fox's 8th Air Force Remembered: An illustrated guide to the memorials, memorabilia and main airfields of the US 8th Air Force in England in WW2 (London: ISO Publications, 1991).

For more on the history of the airfield, see:

  • Martin Bowman: Bomber Bases of WW2: 2nd Air Division 8th Air Force USAAF 1942-45
  • Michael Bowyer: Action Stations Revisited: No 1 Eastern England
  • Ken Delve: The Military Airfields of Britain: East Anglia (Norfolk and Suffolk)
  • Roger Freeman: Airfields of the Eighth Then and Now

If you're interested in any of these books you can find and reserve them at the Norfolk Online Catalogue.