Monument Details

Carpetbagger Covert Warfare Museum

Details:

The museum is located within the group operations building on the site of the former WWII airfield. It sits next to the Northants Aviation Society Museum, facing west toward the parking lot. Museum

The museum collections are housed in the last remaining original structure on the site which served as a secret group operations base for the 801^st/ 492^nd American Eighth Air

Force Bomb Group (The Carpetbaggers) during World War II. Collections feature photographs, maps, artifacts, and audiovisual materials in the form of film footage and recordings. The museum is primarily concerned with the missions flown by American airmen working out of Harrington, although it also includes artifacts related to the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) which were based at the former RAF Tempsford.

The museum was formed in 1993 for the 50^th anniversary reunion of the USAAF's 801^st/ 492^nd Bomb Group in Harrington and is administered by members of the Harrington Aviation Museum Society.

Monument Text:

Commemorates:

Units:

492nd Bomber Group

801st Bomber Group

850th Bomber Squadron, 490th Bomber Group, Heavy

856th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group

857th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomber Group

858th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, Heavy

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

OSS

United States Air Force

United States Army

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Operation Carpetbagger

Operation Jedburgh (OSS Operations)

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