Positioned slightly behind and to the right of the RAF Debden Memorial.

A stepped base topped by a tapered stone on which a bronze plaque is surmounted. The plaque is inscribed in English text in relief lettering as well with the 8^th Air Force insignia on the bottom center of the plaque. The 4th Fighter Group Memorial was dedicated on 11 July 1981 at Carver Barracks, Wimbish, formerly Debden Airdrome and USAAF Station F-356. 

The 4th Fighter Group was the longest-serving fighter unit in the European Theatre of Operations. It was stationed at Debden airfield in Essex, England, from September 1942 until July 1945. Many of its pilots were original members of the RAF Eagles, a group of Americans who volunteered to serve in the RAF before the United States declared war. The 4th FG scored more victories than any other USAAF Eighth Air Force unit and was the first to engage the Luftwaffe over both Paris and Berlin. Its crews participated in D-Day, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of the Bulge and the initial crossing of the Rhine. The group had taken 583 victories in the air and 489 on the ground by the war's end. However they were hit hard by casualties after serving for so long: 248 aircraft were lost, 125 men were killed in action and 105 pilots became POWs.

Source of information: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register, https://www.americanlibrary.uk

Source of images: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register

RAF DEBDEN WAS HOME OF THE 4TH FIGHTER GROUP,

8TH AIR FORCE, U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE WW-II, FROM

SEPTEMBER 1942 TO SEPTEMBER 1945.

VANGUARD YANKS OF THE 71ST, 121ST AND 133RD RAF

EAGLE SQUADRONS AND THEIR SPITFIRES TRADED RAF

BLUES FOR U.S. ARMY OLIVES TO BECOME THE 4TH

FIGHTER GROUP.

LONG RANGING THUNDERBOLTS, LATER MUSTANGS, WERE TO

HELP A DEDICATED 4TH GROUP ACHIEVE THE MOST

VICTORIES OVER ENEMY AIRCRAFT IN THE ENTIRE U.S.

ARMY AIR FORCE - 1016 ENEMY AIRCRAFT WERE DESTROYED.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR COMRADES WHO WERE NOT TO

SEE THE WAR'S END, AND OF ANGLO-AMERICAN ENDEAVORS

TO A COMMON CAUSE, WE SURVIVORS OF THE 4TH FIGHTER

GROUP HUMBLY DEDICATE THIS MEMORIAL.