95th BG Memorials

The surviving men of the 95th Bomb Group (H) carried away with them from Horham memorials in their hearts to their fallen brothers.  They remain there to this day.  It would be some forty years before they looked up from lives filled with work and family to contemplate reuniting.  Beginning in the 1980s, the men and their wives began meeting annually, reconnecting as the 95th Bomb Group Association.  It was not long before they began working on a series of memorials to those they had lost.  To date, six memorials have been officially established, and it is one of the primary missions of the subsequent 95th Bomb Group Memorials Foundation to care for these memorials in perpetuity.

The people who remained in their homelands overseas did not forget the men of the 95th Bomb Group, either, and through the years they have created a number of memorials—large and small—to those who paid the ultimate sacrifice from the Group.  In the Horham area alone, there are six memorials, with the crowning effort being the Red Feather Club, a museum built from the ruins of the old base and designated by the Memorials Foundation as the official 95th Bomb Group museum in the United Kingdom.  Nearby, the 95th Bomb Group Hospital Museum is maintained on private land; there are two memorials located in Horham’s St. Mary’s Church; a memorial in Redlingfield commemorates the loss of a 95th plane on take-off at Horham; and a small monument at the Parham/Framlingham Airfield commemorates those who lost their lives operating from that field in the early days.

On the European Continent, private citizens in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Denmark have erected numerous memorials to individuals and crews who lost their lives in their areas.