The airfield was one of many built across East Anglia, for American planes to use during World War II, in order that Germany could be bombed. As a base for Liberator bombers, the home for a few short months (September 1943 - June 1945) of Station 146 - the 448th Bomb Group, there are so many vivid accounts of heroism and loss of life - stories of problems with the wet brown clay that is the Seething soil, and the hardships endured by foreign servicemen and local Norfolk people during their struggle for victory.
Today, the airfield (which is actually partly in the civil parish of Mundham) has a memorial to those airmen of over 50 years ago, a control tower that is also the site museum of the 448th B.G. collection, and until recently, a light aircraft repair and servicing workshop. While much of the runway area has been ripped up and turned back into fields for crop growing, the Waveney Flying Club is based there, the Chet Model Aircraft Club fly there and The Norfolk and Norwich Astronomical Society have their observatory there.
