Airfield of the Week - Swannington

The remains of the Watch Office at Swannington, 21 July 2014. © Evelyn Simak and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

 

Our first Airfield of the Week of 2016 is Swannington in Norfolk. de Havilland Mosquitos were based here during the Second World War. The airfield was also subject to one of the very last Luftwaffe attacks on a British airfield on the night of 16/17 March 1945.

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