RAF Bury St Edmunds - Crew Reading Room

Personnel of the 94th Bomb Group take a break in crew reading room at Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham).
Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press'[stamp], 'passed for publication 11 Dec 1943'[stamp] and '256508'[Censor no]
Printed caption on reverse: 'CREW READING ROOM AT US AIR BASE.
Favorite spot on the base for the combat crews that fly over enemy territory is the crew reading room that is filled at most hours of day and night with pilots, gunners, radio men and navigators, reading, writing, studying or playing cards. A large Nissen hut ... the room was painted , decorated and arranged by the men themselves. Bright paint was dug up by the men, when officers were unable to get paint for their club ... or for headquarters offices. Search parties went as far afield as London in their search for maps, chairs and pictures. One huge map of the world was secured from the lobby of a large London Daily Newspaper Office.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS:- A general view of one end of the reading room, with crewmen at ease with books and magazines and in the background Capt. E.E. House, Squadron Intellgence Officer, from N. Dakota, explains late war front news to two men on a huge map of the world that is kept up to date with moveable battle lines in all theatres.
IRV 263 131243.'
IWM catalogue record
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Personnel of the 94th Bomb Group take a break in crew reading room at Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham).
Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press'[stamp], 'passed for publication 11 Dec 1943'[stamp] and '256508'[Censor no]
Printed caption on reverse: 'CREW READING ROOM AT US AIR BASE.
Favorite spot on the base for the combat crews that fly over enemy territory is the crew reading room that is filled at most hours of day and night with pilots, gunners, radio men and navigators, reading, writing, studying or playing cards. A large Nissen hut ... the room was painted , decorated and arranged by the men themselves. Bright paint was dug up by the men, when officers were unable to get paint for their club ... or for headquarters offices. Search parties went as far afield as London in their search for maps, chairs and pictures. One huge map of the world was secured from the lobby of a large London Daily Newspaper Office.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO SHOWS:- A general view of one end of the reading room, with crewmen at ease with books and magazines and in the background Capt. E.E. House, Squadron Intellgence Officer, from N. Dakota, explains late war front news to two men on a huge map of the world that is kept up to date with moveable battle lines in all theatres.

IRV 263 131243.'