Eye, Suffolk

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February 1944
20 August 1946
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490th Bombardment Group

AIRFIELD SITE

AIRFIELD SITE : 360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Eye Airfield

360 Degree Aerial Video of RAF Eye Airfield - 29 February 2016

AIRFIELD SITE : Aerial Views of Eye Airfield

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.1, No.2 and No.3

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.2

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.34

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.46

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.47

AIRFIELD SITE : Aircraft Hardstand No.46 and No.47

AIRFIELD SITE : Helipad

AIRFIELD SITE : RH Bodyworks Helicopter Landing Area

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 03/21

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 09/27

AIRFIELD SITE : Runway 15/33

AIRFIELD SITE : Taxiways

BUILDING 1 : Hangar / T2 Type Aircraft Shed

BUILDING 12 : Main Stores, Office & Rubber Store

BUILDING 15 : Gas Clothing & Respirator Store

BUILDING 23 : RAF Latrine

BUILDING 64 : Air Ministry Bombing Teacher Building

BUILDING 66 : Sub Station

BUILDING 110 : Station Offices

BUILDING 111 : Operations Block

BOMB STORES SITE

BOMB STORES SITE : Trackways

BUILDING 103 : Fuzing Point Building

SEWAGE WORKS SITE

BUILDING 145 : M & E Plinth

BUILDING 320 : Filtration Beds​

BUILDING 321 : Sewage Pump House

BUILDING 322 : Destructor Shed​

BUILDING 323 : Tool Shed

SEWAGE WORKS SITE : Entrance

SEWAGE WORKS SITE : Sludge Drying Beds​

SICK QUARTERS SITE

BUILDING 144 : M & E Plinth

BUILDING 200 : Sick Quarters

BUILDING 202 : Ambulance Garage & Mortuary

BUILDING 230 : Picket Post

BUILDING 231 : Air Raid Shelter

SITE No.1

SITE No.1 : Entrance

SITE No.1 : Trackways

SITE No.1 : Unknown

SITE No.5

SITE No.5 : Unknown

WAAF SITE No.1

WAAF SITE No.1 : Trackways

BUILDING 142 : M & E Plinth

BUILDING 231 : Air Raid Shelter

DEFENCE SITE

DEFENCE SITE : Spigot Mortar

Castleton Way, Eye

DEFENCE SITE : Spigot Mortar

Cranley Green Road (B1077), Eye

DEFENCE SITE : Spigot Mortar

Ludgate Causeway, Eye

MEMORIALS AT EYE

MEMORIAL SITE : ​490th Bombardment Group (H) Roll of Honour

The Roll of Honour was unveiled on 9 August 2015 by T/Sgt Jamie Sherwood and S/Sgt Scott Weeks, both from RAF Lakenheath.

MEMORIAL SITE : ​490th Bombardment Group (H) Roll of Honour (Temporary)

MEMORIAL SITE : ​490th Bombardment Group (H) Memorial

The ​490th Bombardment Group (H) Memorial was dedicated on 29 May 2016.

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Airfield Trail Information Boards

MEMORIAL SITE : Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress (42-5793) Crash Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Church of St Mary

Church of St Mary, Brome

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Cunningham Drive

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Eye Airfield & 490th BG(H) Memorial Lych Gate

MEMORIAL SITE : Eye Cemetery

Buried and Remembered in this Cemetery are:
William Charles Burridge
Air Mechanic 1st Class A. Weavers (Royal Naval Air Service)

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Land Art Memorial

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Memorial Information Board

This Memorial Information Board was located at Speedeck (Now Closed) on the old airfield, it is not known the whereabouts of this board now.

MEMORIAL SITE : Pathfinder Crew Memorial Tree

MEMORIAL SITE : Pathfinder Memorial Information Plaque

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Road Signs

MEMORIAL SITE : ​Wings for Victory Plaque

Located in Eye Town Hall.

MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS : Airfield Warning Sign

MISCELLANEOUS : Church Farm Barn

MISCELLANEOUS : Eye Town Sign

MISCELLANEOUS : Station 119 Brewery

MISCELLANEOUS : Unknown 01

This is possibly a fuel tank from the airfield yet I have been unable to verify this for certain.

MISCELLANEOUS : Unknown 02

Nissen / Romney Hut thought to be from Eye Airfield that has been relocated near the airfield.

MISCELLANEOUS : Wind Turbine Site