RAF Metfield

RAF Metfield
USAAF Station 366
Located near Metfield, Suffolk, England
RAF Metfield - January 1947
RAF Metfield USAAF Station 366 is located in Suffolk
RAF Metfield USAAF Station 366
RAF Metfield
USAAF Station 366
Coordinates52°22′01″N 1°23′46″E / 52.367°N 1.396°E / 52.367; 1.396
TypeRoyal Air Force station
Site information
OwnerAir Ministry
Controlled by Royal Air Force
 United States Army Air Forces
Site history
Built1943 (1943)
In use1943-1945 (1945)
Battles/warsEuropean theatre of World War II
Air Offensive, Europe July 1942 - May 1945
Garrison information
Garrison Eighth Air Force
Occupants 353d Fighter Group
 491st Bombardment Group
The control tower at RAF Metfield, on 30 May 1944, AAF personnel waiting for returning aircraft.
Ford B-24H-25-FO Liberator Serial 42-95219 of the 854th Bomb Squadron

Royal Air Force Metfield or more simply RAF Metfield is a former Royal Air Force station located just to the southeast of the village of Metfield, Suffolk, England.

Metfield was built as a standard, Class-A bomber design airfield, consisting of three intersecting concrete runways, fifty dispersal points and two T-2 type hangars. Additional buildings were also erected to house about 2,900 personnel on former farmland to the southwest. When it was constructed in 1943, it necessitated the closure of the B1123 road between Halesworth and Harleston.