Welcome to Little America: Life and Death on the Bomber Bases of the Eighth Air Force explores the human stories behind the vast network of American air bases that transformed East Anglia during the Second World War.

Rather than concentrating solely on military operations, historian Dr Hattie Hearn focuses on the lives of the young American airmen and the local people whose communities were changed forever by their arrival.

The stories of the Eighth Air Force are explored in the new book (Image: Newsquest)

Flixton Airfield features in the work, and many American service men would visit........

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