[1] Raydon was primarily a fighter station for the Eighth and Ninth United States Army Air Forces (USAAF).

The first American occupants of Raydon was the 357th Fighter Group, moving in from Casper AAF, Wyoming on 30 November 1943.

The 358th was initially assigned to the 66th Fighter Wing, at Sawston Hall, Cambridge, then transferred to the Ninth Air Force on 1 February 1944 in exchange for the 357th FG.

The aircraft was severely weakened around the place of impact so the remaining crew decided to land at Raydon.

After the end of the Second World War, in September, the group left Raydon and transferred back to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey where it was inactivated on 18 October 1945.

[6] The B-17 - a member of the 324th Bomb Squadron - went by the name of "Little Patches" and was piloted by 2nd Lt Charles Buchanan on a mission to Merseburg upon which it sustained serious flak damage.

[8] After the Americans left, Raydon was transferred back to RAF Fighter Command on 20 December 1945.

During 1960/62 the Air Ministry sold the remaining airfield parts of RAF Raydon to agricultural interests, retaining most of the technical site for storage of emergency vehicles by the Home Office.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency