Visit Bury St Edmunds, a perfect market town with medieval heritage in Suffolk in the East of England, for a chapter of the Masters of the Air story.
Rougham Control Tower Aviation Museum is a small, friendly, volunteer-run museum, dedicated to keeping the memories and history alive of the American airmen/women who served in the 94th Bomb Group of the USAAF 8th Air Force during World War II.
In the town centre, inside the medieval Guildhall, you will find one of the last World War II Royal Observer Corps Operations Room.
At the start of WW2, radar was in its early stages and wasn’t capable of tracking aircraft over land. Royal Observer Corps Ops Rooms filled that gap.
The Guildhall Ops Room was a crucial part of a defence network known as the Dowding System. It was one of 40 ROC Ops Room spread across the country. Between them they helped keep surveillance on every inch of the British skies.
