Like you, during WW II, I lived in the shadow of the 8th AF. In my case it was the 306th BG at Thurleigh and they were more often early starters than late flyers. Very occasionally they would send individual B-17 aircraft on leaflet dropping missions at night. As I recollect Double British Summer Time was in effect in order to move all operations, flying and farming, into the daylight hours.
Unfortunately without a more accurate date it will be difficult to find more info in the records of the incident that you remember.
Have you tried contacting the 384BG Association and ask some questions there? Perhaps they have copies of the individual squadrons Combat Diaries available.

The USAF did use a few AT-20s which was a Canadian Built Anson Mk II.

Hawker, check your PMs and contact me directly if you want photos of the deflectors.

Moggy, the 305th was based at Chelveston.

Whoops! Sorry about that, those are all 6.00 x 6.

The only 6.00 x 4 I can find is under “Wheelbarrows”! Might be worth a look in your local hardware store, if you are not going flying.

The National Air Force Museum of Canada, at Trenton, Ontario (then known as the RCAF Museum), rebuilt the Handley Page Halifax, serial number NA 337, to static display condition over a period of 13 years.

The work involved about 100 volunteers who put in some 360,000 man/hours in the process of restoring, what was, essentially, a complete airframe, of which most of the required drawings were available. As were the facilities to do the work.

Although some materials were donated, about $1,000.000 was required to keep the work going.

To think a Mossie might be reconstructed to flying condition, using manpower mostly provided by volunteers, in 10 years, is quite optimistic.

Sorry Steve, I cannot add to your info. As a kid I was all over Podington, Chelveston, Thurleigh, Kimbolton and Little Staughton and I carefully collected tail numbers, aircraft names and squadron markings.

Unfortunately my mother decided that I did not need all that info when the war ended and she threw it all out, as I had by then left the country.

Folks always ask “Did you take photos?” Unfortunately neither film nor processing was available during the war years and most places adjacent to airfields were posted with signs indicating that the taking of photos and/or notes and the making of sketches were forbidden under the wartime rules.

Steve have you checked the Cliff Bishop book “Fortresses of the Big Triangle First”?

He seems to list a bunch of aircraft that the 97th acquired from the 92nd.