The USAAF Heritage Trust had launched an appeal to protect wartime-painted squadron insignia inside the American Red Cross Aero Club at Station 125 near Bungay.

It has announced that the building is now largely watertight after urgent waterproofing work.

Trustees had warned last month that rainwater entering through the roof was threatening some of the last surviving examples of original wartime artwork painted by American servicemen stationed at the site during the war.

One of the surviving wartime-painted squadron insignia inside........

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