Welcome to the Air War Trail
If you walk along the air war trail today, you will see the remains of the wartime airfields everywhere you look. The images of war have grown faint, but the spirit of the bomber boys over East Anglia will never fade. They are all gone away now, these once busy and impressive places so vital so long ago. Now only the green fields blow in the wind, and the sounds of Flying Fortresses and Liberators along the taxiways have been silenced forever.
The Yanks are but memories now. Here and there only solitary walls rest on this hallowed ground, standing vigil across the landscape of time.
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- Bi-weekly release of episodes and other content
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- Full-length films, interviews, and other video presentations
- Bonus content of high-res photographs, historical materials, War Department productions, and much more
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Our Mission
The podcast, documentaries, interviews, and images bring the voices alive from those who experienced World War II in an up close and personal way. These are their stories, when freedom stood in the balance and a generation of the free made a difference in the world.
In 2002 Military Historian and Producer/Director Vernon L. Williams established the East Anglia Air War Project with a mission to document the American air war against the German empire in the ETO. For twenty-three years, Dr. Williams has traveled across the United States interviewing ground and air crews who served in wartime England during the Second World War.
Meanwhile, Williams made countless trips to England and searched out British family members who lived in the villages around the airfields across East Anglia. The net result of more than two decades of research, oral history interviews, and an extensive document archive, Williams has produced over a dozen full length broadcast quality documentaries on the air war, with more on the way, recorded hundreds of comprehensive oral history interviews, and collected more than fifty thousand World War Two photographs. Now the East Anglia Air War Collection is available on a new podcast and streaming service through the Air War Trail.
