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South Acre

Decoy
County: Norfolk
Current Status: Farmland
Date: Opened by September 1941 - 1944 (last known date 31 March)
Current Use: Disused
Used By: RAF
Decoy Type(s): Q
Decoy Number(s): 27(b), later 191(a)

South Acre operated as the second listed decoy airfield after Swaffham for Marham during World War Two. The control shelter still survives.

 

The following organisations are either based at, use and/or have at least potentially significant connections with the airfield (as at 31/12/2015):

  • Southacre Parish Meeting
Parent(s)/HQ Airfield(s):

Marham

Associated Airfield(s):

Swaffham / Wormegay

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