8th Air Force control towers

[theobarten]

How many of the control towers are still standing and which one(s) are best preserved?

Well, you can find many of them in the photobook 'All along the Control Tower' in which 52 towers are photographed (such as Parham, Thorpe Abotts and many more).
Together with the co-ordinates and Google Earth images they are easy to find or visited.

Go to

http://www.controltowers.eu for more info

[Divsock]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_Bomb_Group_Memorial_Museum

Visited 100th BG Museum when I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall in the '80s, which seems like just yesterday. The TDY rotational C-130 squadrons from CONUS would practice cargo airdrops at RAF East Wretham drop zone and we'd recover them. East Wretham was a P-47, then P-51 airfield. T-2 hanger is still intact and quit a few support buildings.

[JohnB]

When assigned to RAF Bentwaters in the late 80s, I lived in the BOQ area...prewar RAF married NCO quarters at Martlesham Heath. Most of the former airfield was developed, but a couple of hundred yards away was an open field and in it was the well-preserved wartime control tower. It was in good shape and being used by (UK) scouts.
To be frank, since it was in the backyard of some new homes, I didn't give it much of a chance to survive, but now I understand its been restored as a museum.
Martlesham Heath was a very historic field, dating back to WWI and between the wars was the UK equivalent of Wright Field, as a testing airbase. Finally, UK and US fighter units called it home during the war.

The HQ building is still there with a nice monument at the base of the flag pole.

[RAMC181]

Alconbury's 1941 Watch Office & Briefing Room this week:



Fenced off to protect it during the redevelopment of the former airfield site, this Grade II Listed historic building is currently slated to become a restaurant.

[RAMC181]

Alconbury's 1943 Watch Office, just prior to it's demolition by USAF in fall 2013:



How it looked before it's 1980's USAF "improvements":