On the north side of the intersection.

Sentry box built in about 1943 for Upottery airfield guards. A very simple, small red brick structure with a monopitch roof clad in corrugated asbestos sheets. Square on plan, open at the front, with a small unglazed window on either side. It is the only surviving sentry box at Upottery Airfield.

RAF Upottery, also known as Smeatharpe, was intended as an RAF bomber station but was occupied by the United States Army Air Force, who used the facilities for its troop carriers. The former sentry box now stands as a memorial to those paratroops, glider infantry troops, and the troop carrier group who lost their lives in missions that set out for France from Upottery in June 1944. Inside the sentry box are small wooden crosses with red poppies and two small memorial plaques placed on the wall and the ground. On the outside of the sentry box, there is a metal plate inscribed with the regiments and the names of the men who left Smeatharpe airfield on the 5th and 7th of June 1944 for France and died there.

Source of information: www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk, www.heritagegateway.org.uk

Source of images: www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk 

Plaque on the ground:

FOR THE OFFICERS

AND MEN OF THE

101^ST AIRBORNE DIVISION

UNITED STATES ARMY.

FOR OUR TOMORROW

THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY

(-101^st Airborne Division insignia-)