56th Fighter Group at Boxted

Bibliography and websites

There are several good histories of the 56th Fighter Group available for use in the American Library.

Among those histories are:

Larry Davis: 56th Fighter Group
Roger A Freeman: 56th Fighter Group
William N Hess: Zemke's Wolf Pack: the 56th Fighter Group in World War II
David R McLaren: Beware the Thunderbolt! The 56th Fighter Group in World War II
Hubert Zemke: Zemke's Wolf Pack: the story of Hub Zemke and the 56th Fighter Group in the skies over Europe

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.