Elveden Hall
Military siteElveden Hall housed the Headquarters of the 8th Air Force's 3rd Bomb Division.
Image via Mark Brown, AFA. Written on slide casing: 'Elveden Hall.' Roger Freeman Collection
Elveden Hall, Brandon, Suffolk was used during the Second World War as a headquarters for the USAAF Third Air Division. Some evidence to suggest that the staff quarters were struck and destroyed by a bomb.
Camp Blainey was probably a camp of tents and/or huts used to house the staff, erected in the grounds of the Hall.
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- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Headquarters (3rd Air Division)
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Chief Photo Interpreter
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 3rd Bomb Division 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-430990
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 93rd Combat Bomb Wing 95th Bomb Group Headquarters Squadron (95th Bomb Group)
- Service Numbers: O-17954
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Wing Commander/Group Commander/Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 548th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-2056863
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: Women's Army Corps 3rd Air Division
- Highest Rank: Corporal (RAF)
- Role/Job: WAC
Revisions
Corrected spelling from 'Elvedon Hall' to 'Elveden Hall'.
Source: http://www.stedmundsburychronicle.co.uk/acm8.htm
Barry Anderson, Army Air Forces Stations (Alabama, 1985) / Office of History, Headquarters Third Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe; Installations and USAAF Combat Units in the United Kingdom 1942-1945, Revised and Expanded Edition (February 1967, Revised October 1980).