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Eight Decades of Shared Heritage: RAF Lakenheath and the US Air Force
Heritage Open Day: Please join us for a talk on the shared heritage of the USAF and the RAF with Jeffrey T. McGovern, PhD, Historian,48th Fighter Wing, RAF Lakenheath, UK Since the summer of 1948, the US Air Force (USAF) has been the caretaker of RAF Lakenheath. For nearly eight decades, the special friendship between the USAF and the people of Suffolk has continually endured, albeit with its occasional bumps in the road e.g., how aircraft have steadily become louder and louder. For the first decade, the USAF utilized RAF Lakenheath as a home for rotating strategic bombers, a place that marked pre-air-to-air refueling deterrence against possible Soviet aggression into Western Europe.
Tuesday 15 September
Brandon Royal British Legion, 97 London Road, Brandon, Suffolk IP27 0EL
Tues 15 Sep:3.00pm and 6.00pm; Free Entry.
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