RAF Foulsham

Royal Air Force Foulsham, more commonly known as RAF Foulsham[2] is a former Royal Air Force station, a military airfield, located 15 miles North-West of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk, East Anglia, from 1942 to 1945.

Foulsham was one of the few airfields to be fitted with FIDO in 1944, a fog dispersal system which used fires at the sides of the runways.

[4] It also had 9 hangars, five of which were built for storing Airspeed Horsa glider aircraft ready for D Day.

462 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, which operated Handley Page Halifax aircraft.

Many aircraft made emergency landings at Foulsham, including USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress F "Ruthie II", which made an emergency landing there in 1943 after an epic return flight for which co-pilot John C. Morgan was awarded the highest U.S. medal, the Medal of Honor.

An Australian Halifax at RAF Foulsham in 1945