Opened in spring 1944 , RAF Harrington was the haunt of the USAAF Special Operations Group "The Carpetbaggers" [801st Bomb Group , later renamed 492nd Bomb Group] for the delivery and supply of SOE Agents in to Occupied Europe . Aircraft based here were B-24 Liberators , A-26 Invaders C-47 Skytrains and Mosquitoes . The airfield closed October 1945 and returned to farmland , until 1958 when the RAF selected the site for the basing of 3 x Thor IRBM's . They stayed untill 1963 and the airfield again returned to farmland [it was shortly after the Thor's were removed that the runways were taken up] .
Memorial .
The cottages seen on the pic on the memorial from just a few yards up the peri track from the memorial .
Southern Perimeter track.
End of the SW/NE Runway .
Western Perimeter track.
Rifle Range .
End of the W/E runway and the Thor site pyro store built on it .
Thor site perimeter fence posts cut into the western perimeter track .
End of the S/N runway .
Southern Thor launch pad .
Central Thor launch pad .
Intersection of the N/S and E/W runways .
Northern Thor launch pad .
Thor control room [?] with the memorial in the background .
Eastern Perimeter track from the memorial .
Northern Perimeter track .
End of the N/S runway .
Northern perimeter track .
What was marked on the map as a bulk fuel store , fairly destroyed .