In common with other airfields of the period, the technical, administrative and domestic buildings were dispersed to lessen the impact of any enemy air attack.

USAAF Station Units assigned to RAF Bungay were:[1] Bungay was still unfinished when the Twelfth Air Force 428th Bombardment Squadron, 310th Bombardment Group (Medium) at RAF Hardwick arrived with fourteen North American B-25 Mitchell medium bombers in October 1942.

Additional construction was performed at Bungay until November 1943 when the airfield received the Eighth Air Force 446th Bombardment Group (Heavy) from Lowry AAF, Colorado.

Targets included U-boat installations at Kiel, the port at Bremen, a chemical plant at Ludwigshafen, ball-bearing works at Berlin, aero-engine plants at Rostock, aircraft factories at Munich, marshalling yards at Coblenz, motor works at Ulm, and oil refineries at Hamburg.

It supported the Normandy landings in June 1944 by attacking strong points, bridges, airfields, transportation, and other targets in France.

It aided ground forces at Caen and Saint-Lô during July by hitting bridges, gun batteries, and enemy troops.

With the end of military control Bungay airfield was the location of the Martlesham Heath Parachute Club, with Cessna 182 G-ATNU and crop sprayers, including Pawnee D G-BFRY.

In the spring of 1986 a new set of oak gates were hung at St Mary's Church, Flixton, which stands close to the old airfield.

In the early 2000s, Bungay's largest employer Clays, then part of St Ives Group, failed to gain planning permission to re-site their printing factory on the airfield.

An aircraft museum has been established since 1972[6] next to the Buck Inn, Flixton, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the airfield site.