Wartime memories

Download and read these stories below, plus other tales of the division's presence in Norfolk during the Second World War.

• Albert Sanders (448th Bomb Group) (PDF) [154KB]
• Carey Evans (WAAC) (PDF) [1MB]
• Dick Robert (453rd Bomb Group) - The D-Day Invasion (PDF) [2MB]
• Fielder Newton (389th Bomb Group) - J C Dodman Crew (PDF) [14KB]
• James Reeves (Second Air Division HQ)  (PDF) [13KB]
• Ludwig Lund - official army illustrator of the Second Air Division and watercolourist (PDF) [1MB]
• Oak Mackey (392nd Bomb Group) - Crash Landing at Seething (PDF) [30KB]
• Sam Evans (458th Bomb Group)  (PDF) [5MB]
• Walter Hughes (93rd Bomb Group) (PDF) [42KB]
• William Frederick (458th Bomb Group) - A Dog Tag Story (PDF) [2MB]

Video interviews

United States Air Force veterans of WWII discussed their experience of war; from their relocation to the sleepy farming towns of Norfolk, England, to the extraordinary flight combat missions they undertook. Watch the videos on our YouTube channel.

BBC People's War

If you want to discover more wartime memories of the Second Air Division, you'll find them on the BBC People's War website.

This site is no longer being updated by the BBC but the stories are still available to view.