82nd : Fulbeck

RAF Fulbeck was known as USAAF Station 488 during the time that the IXth TCC units were stationed there. The 434th TCG arrived in October 1943, under command of Col. Fred D. Stevens, but moved out to Aldermaston on 3rd March 1944, being replaced by the  442nd TCG under Col. Charles M. Smith, which arrived 29th March 1944.

 

The 442nd carried the 82nd Airborne's 1/507 PIR and HHC/507 PIR to DZ-T on 6/6/44. It then flew in the re-supply mission “Memphis” to the 101st Airborne Division on 7/6/44. The Group left Fulbeck on June 12th to go to RAF Weston Zoyland in Somerset.

 

 The 440th TCG arrived on September 11th 1944 for Operation Market Garden, transporting part of the 508th PIR and the 376th PFAB to DZ-T north-east of Groesbeek, near Nijmegen. The 440th also flew two glider missions on the 18th and 23rd of September.

 

 The site is now an Army training area and has few remaining buildings. The control tower was demolished only a few years ago, but the gun butts still survive in good condition and there are a few buildings still surviving on dispersed sites

The Bomber Airfield Society's Memorial to the RAF Squadrons based at RAF Fulbeck.

The Machine Gun Butts standing forlorn in the middle of a farmer's field.

The ammunition storage/bomb dump is now used by a Go-Kart racing company as their headquarters. There is also a circuit out on the remains of one of the runways.

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