Lakenheath
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Lakenheath is a village in Suffolk, United Kingdom.
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[edit] RAF Lakenheath
Lakenheath is perhaps best known, especially outside the UK, as the host to the largest USAF base in the United Kingdom: RAF Lakenheath
It is difficult to overestimate the social impact on Lakenheath, and indeed any of the towns and villages within several miles, of the United States Air Force fighter airbase and its nearby sister, RAF Mildenhall. RAF Lakenheath has the small RAF Feltwell about 10 minutes away under its control.
The United States has maintained a presence in the community since bombers were stationed there during WWII conducting raids on Europe. The base has a population of around 7000 service personnel (Mildenhall is unknown.) This does not account for non-combatant personnel and families.
During the mid-eighties there was a peace camp outside RAF Lakenheath.
Currently, there are three squadrons of F-15 fighters and their support and maintenance personnel stationed there. The 492nd and 494th Fighter Squadrons fly the multi-role F-15E Strike Eagle and the 493rd Fighter Squadron flies the air-to-air F-15C Eagle variant. The 48th Fighter Wing, "Liberty Wing", is the parent unit exercising command of the base in conjunction with the RAF.
An American school system exists on the base. An elementary, intermediate and a high school are on the base.( www.lakenheath.cc )
[edit] Archaeology
The region between Devil's Dyke and the line between Littleport and Shippea Hill shows a remarkable amount of archaeological findings of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age<ref>Hall, David [1994]. Fenland survey : an essay in landscape and persistence / David Hall and John Coles. London; English Heritage. ISBN 1-850-74477-7., p. 81-88</ref>.
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