389th Bombardment Group at Hethel

Bibliography

There are several good histories of the 389th Bomb Group available at the American Library.

Among those histories are:

389th BG: Blue Book
Peter Bodle and Paul Wilson: The 389th Bomb Group in Norfolk: A Pictorial History
Paul Wilson and Ron Mackay: The Sky Scorpions: The Story of the 389th Bomb Group in World War II

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.

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