Veteran family visit - on her recent visit to Thorpe Abbotts Christina is pictured with Ron Batley outside the Visitor Centre. She is the granddaughter of waist gunner Sgt Harold Osban, who flew for both the 350th & 351st squadrons in 1944. His planes included Quittin’ Time, My Gal Sal, Humpty Dumpty, Mason and Dixon - altogether he amassed well over 30 missions.

The Tee family stand is the same place where hardstand 8 and their father's plane used to be. The Tee family at Hardstand 8 on the airfield, the same place where their father, T/Sgt Winfred Tee appears in the wartime photo. T/Sgt is at bottom right in the original photo with his crew and their aircraft Piccadilly Lily II. Winfred’s daughters and their partners had an emotional visit to Thorpe Abbotts. Their father flew with the 351st Bomb Squadron as a Radio Operator/Gunner o

Veteran family visit - we opened up the museum on Sunday 8th December 2024, so that Scott and Adriana O’Brien could visit and walk in the footsteps of Scott’s Grandfather, Sgt James O’Brien, 350th Bomb Squadron Communications. Sgt. James O'Brien James O’Brien was part of the detachment which came to the airfield in advance of the Group to prepare for their arrival. A touching moment was when Scott identified his Grandfather in a photo in the Sad Sack Shack at the museum (phot