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Re: Station 365, Halesworth, Suffolk.
If you are recording P-47D ops out of Halesworth, I have this from the 405th Fighter Bomber Group (later FG);
On 13th May, the 405th FG provided part of the escort for the 3rd Air Task Force, Eighth Air Force, which sent 199 B-17s to bomb the marshalling yards at Osnabruck. Unfortunately, things started to go wrong for the 405th from the start. The Group took off at 08.30 hours from Christchurch with sufficient fuel just to reach Halesworth (Station 365) in Suffolk, as it was the intention to refuel all the Squadron aircraft once they got there. However, due to an oversight not all their aircraft could be refuelled at Halesworth, so only thirty-five aircraft of the Group were able to take off again at 12.34 hrs, in time to rendezvous with the bombers.
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Larry Hayward
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