RAF Downham Market - A History

and so we come to the end of my current run of videos.. what i have now all need remaking and i am busy with starting a Roman Britain project...but more of that in due course so here i present a history of RAF Downham Market i had a number of accounts of hauntings from this airfield but lost many in a hard disk failure..if anyone knows about hauntings here could they wtite a comment please... No. 3 Group Bomber Command County: Norfolk Location: North-east of Downham Market OS Ref: TF 624028 Opened: July 1942 Closed: October 1946 Pundit Code: KI Tower Type: Watch Office for Bomber Satellite Stations 7345/41 & 13079/41 Condition: Demolished Runways: 3 Concrete. (093)1,900 by 50 yards, (034) 1,400 by 50 yards & (337) 1,400 by 50 yards Hardstandings: 36 pan hardstandings were laid, but two were lost when a Bl hangar was built in the Northwest corner of the airfield, West of runway head 16. Hangars: 6 - T2, 1 - B1, Six T2 hangars were erected during 1942-43, three being for glider storage. Two were off the North side between runway heads 21 and 27; two were on the West side between 09 and 16 and South of the Bl hangar in the Northwest corner of the airfield, a single T2 lay to the south-east between runway heads 27 and 34, and another on the technical site between runway heads 03 and 34 alongside the Downham Market road Bomb Stores: These were in Lough Covert Ad., tech. & barr.: The usual technical and operational buildings were adjacent to the A10. The dispersed camp of seven domestic and two communal sites was to the south of Bexwell Hall. This itself requisitioned at an early date for an Officers' Mess Population: RAF Officers - 185, OR - 1,534, WAAF Officers - 8, OR - 318 Sat. airfield(s): Satellite for RAF Marham. Decoy airfield(s): Southacre Q & Wormegay Q No. 218 Squadron lost 109 Stirlings; No.608 Squadron flew 246 missions and lost 8 Mosquitos No.623 Squadron flew 39 operations and lost 10 Stirlings on operations and 1 in an operational crash No.635 Squadron flew 189 missions and lost 34 Lancasters in operations and 7 in operational crashes