RAF Harrington [pic heavy]

[Cluny]

Opened in spring 1944 , RAF Harrington was the haunt of the USAAF Special Operations Group "The Carpetbaggers" [801st Bomb Group , later renamed 492nd Bomb Group] for the delivery and supply of SOE Agents in to Occupied Europe . Aircraft based here were B-24 Liberators , A-26 Invaders C-47 Skytrains and Mosquitoes . The airfield closed October 1945 and returned to farmland , until 1958 when the RAF selected the site for the basing of 3 x Thor IRBM's . They stayed untill 1963 and the airfield again returned to farmland [it was shortly after the Thor's were removed that the runways were taken up] .

Memorial .
















The cottages seen on the pic on the memorial from just a few yards up the peri track from the memorial .




Southern Perimeter track.




End of the SW/NE Runway .




Western Perimeter track.


Rifle Range .






End of the W/E runway and the Thor site pyro store built on it .




Thor site perimeter fence posts cut into the western perimeter track .




End of the S/N runway .




Southern Thor launch pad .
















Central Thor launch pad .








Intersection of the N/S and E/W runways .


Northern Thor launch pad .














Thor control room [?] with the memorial in the background .


Eastern Perimeter track from the memorial .




Northern Perimeter track .




End of the N/S runway .


Northern perimeter track .






What was marked on the map as a bulk fuel store , fairly destroyed .

[Crew chief]

Paul as always very interesting you should do a book.

cc.

[Mayfly]

Love the 'Old airfield' shots - thanks for posting

[Aceyone]

I love this sort of stuff,done a little bit in Suffolk/Norfolk ,many thanks for posting !