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GNASHER
Went to Duxford,its an old USAF base, a few years ago and saw the roll of honour for the flight crews.I was shocked to see the age of some of them.To see how many lost their lives just from that base was so sad.Heroes the lot of them.
...worth a visit - but it was mostly a RAF base with only the US Army Air Force using it as a fighter base in 1943 and 1944.
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Duxford is a now a part of the Imperial War Museum, and the American Air Museum is located on the same property. This is the USAF museum -
...and is where you saw the memorial to the US 8th Air Force crews lost.
I enjoyed the tour around the Imperial War Museum restoration facility, which had many Spitfires in various phases of rebuild.
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