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Fallen airmen of WW2, 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force

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Reference WMO/171825

Address:

Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum

The Street, B1062

Flixton

Bungay

NR35 1NZ

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other monolith
Materials:
  • Other Other
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Formerly a fountain outside the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library in Norwich. There are 50 stones on the top of the memorial, one from each US state.
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Plaque: This memorial was once located in Norwich outside the 2nd Air Division/ of the 8th US Army Air Force Memorial Library/ It is dedicated to the 6200 personnel of the 2nd Air Division based in East Anglia/ who gave their lives defending freedom from 1941 to 1943/ The stones are from the 50 States of the Union./ Information board: THE US ARMY AIR FORCE (USAAF)/ SECOND AIR DIVISION (2nd AD)/ MEMORIAL/ The original 2nd AD Memorial, was located in Norwich outside the 2nd AD Memorial Library./ Following the fire in 1994 which partially destroyed the library, Norwich City Council decided/ to develop that site and the memorial structure was demolished./ The Clerk of Works, realizing the significance of the structure, salvaged the tiles you now see on the top/ partial replica. Years later, a member of the museum located these tiles which had bee stored in Dereham. What is in front of you is a partial reconstruction of the original Memorial and it was restored in 2023/ in honour of the approximately 40,000 young Americans who served in East Anglia during WW2./ Although not an official War Memorial, please respect it in honour of those who/ fell during service to their country and ours. Memorial key: Key to the placing and geological structure of stones from the fifty states of/ America in the mosaic. Designed by Mrs Laurel Cooper of St Olave's, Suffolk,/ it formed the floor of an ornamental fountain at the Norwich Library for many/ years. The inscribed stones in the base of this memorial were also part of it.

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