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Apart from the occasional car speeding past, there is only the sound of corn buntings and skylarks coming from the pancake-flat fields that surround me. For in July , the brutish Republic P Thunderbolts of the th Fighter Group of the American 8 th Air Force arrived, ready to help win the war against Germany that had been dragging on for four long and bloody years. In front of me is a memorial to those men who came to a very foreign land, a curved block of five granite panels, with, in the centre, the propellor of a P Mustang, the airplane which replaced the P at RAF Steeple Morden also known as USAAF Station Before the Ps came in force only a quarter of air crew would live to complete the required 25 missions that made up a tour later that number was increased to 35 , after which they could be rotated home.
When it airs later this year, it is highly likely to rekindle interest in the time when American bases, housing up to 6, men each usually about half that, but still dwarfing the population of local villages sprouted up across the East of England like a strange crop. They were built with astonishing speed and incorporated cinemas, gyms, bars and baseball diamonds, some even had ballrooms and theatres, and all needed crew and support staff accommodation, hangars, mess halls, briefing rooms, technical areas and bomb stores.
