Serendipity – the American Chapel at St Mary the Virgin, Little Easton

by Esmerelda Weatherwax (February 2013)

I had a choice earlier this week.

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   2. I chose option B. of course, and this is one of the things we stumbled across. Knowing how many of our readers have an interest in the USAF service in eastern England I thought it might be of interest.

      There is a tiny and quiet village near Dunmow in North Essex called Little Easton. In 1942 it was the site of RAF Dunmow, also called RAF Little Easton and with the arrival of the American 386th Bomb Group (known as the Crusaders) it was anything but quiet.

      

      

      

      

      

      The 386th Bomb group was re-activated in 2001 as the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing. They are currently stationed in Kuwait and saw service in Iraq.

       

      Photographs E Weatherwax January 2013

       

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