Bournemouth Echo
NEARLY 60 years after their aircraft filled the skies over the New Forest, American air force veterans and their families returned to the former Holmsley airfield near Bransgore yesterday for a poignant memorial service. The 394th Bomb Group, equipped with Martin B-26 Marauder bombers, were stationed at Holmsley for barely six weeks in the summer of 1944, flying sorties in support of the Allied advance following the D-Day landings before moving to France.Flyers and ground crew were remembered in a simple service held at the Holmsley airfield memorial erected
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