44th Bombardment group at Shipdham

Bibliography and website

There are several good histories of the 44th Bomb Group available for use in the American 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

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

If you're interested in the history of the 44th Bomb Group, you may find their website useful.