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This Standard 11008/41 type Battle Headquarters (TL 8447 9915) is within the former perimeter of RAF Bodney. Bodney was a grass-covered airfield without the usual concrete runways and opened in early 1940 as a 2 Group satellite station for nearby Watton. InfoP%

This shows the view from a nearby type 22 pillbox The bolt showing in the upper portion of the loophole is a Turnbull Mount for a Vickers Heavy Machine gun. TL 84479913 .

The type 22 pillbox pillbox was built using brick shuttering and has a half height protected entrance.

Battle Hq Entrance

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Bodney Bunker ladder

This spigot mortar emplacement still stands under horse chestnut trees in the garden of 'Abbot's Court' (old rectory), Victoria Avenue, Brandon. It consists of a Spigot mortar hexagonal concrete pillar c.1m across, with central stainless steel spigot. The

Spigot Mortar Brandontop view

This type 28a gun emplacement for 2pdr field gun still stands facing north along A10 road. It is of a standard design with embrasures in sides and front, none in rear. TL 60899186

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This pillbox formed part of Eastern Command: Command Stop Line - Main Eastern Command stop line running from Wivenhoe on the Essex coast to the Wash west of King's Lynn

This standard type 22 was built using brick shuttering, most of which has fallen away. This pillbox formed part of RAF Feltwell perimeter defences. TL70318802

This shows the entrance. The RAF Station was opened on 12th March 1937 with two 3 Group Bomber Squadrons (Nos. 37 and 214) equipped with Harrow aircraft. Both squadrons were re-equipped with Wellington 1As just prior to the outbreak of war. The first oper

This type 22 pillbox stands 100m SE of railway crossing on A1075, NE of Thetford. The pillbox faces west and formed part of the Thetford nodal point - Thetford defences were prepared for all-round defence in June 1940 and then developed as a category 'A'

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This shows a close up of one of the loopholes. This pillbox was also originally part of the Thetford to Brandon Demolition Belt (along the River Little Ouse) and subsequently the stop line running from the mouth of the River Orwell, via Ipswich, the River

This Standard 11008/41 type Battle Headquarters was built above ground due to drainage problems at Thorpe Abbots Airfield. The original Control Tower is a museum and can been seen in the distance on this photo.TM 1904 8131

This shows the rear entrance. The base was operated by the 100th Bomber Group of the USAAF. They arrived in 1943 and several weeks later, in October, the Group sustained the first of its very heavy losses, when twenty one aircraft and over 200 men were mi

This shows the steps onto the HQ. The 100th Bomber Group received two Distinguished Unit Citations for the missions to Regensberg 17th August '43, and the 4/6/8 March '44 to Berlin. The 100th left Thorpe Abbotts in December '45, and it was returned to the

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Hairpin Roadblock

Sea Palling World War 1 Pillbox

Wayford Bridge, Smallburgh World War 1 Pillbox

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