What's planned for our region's US airbases: the details

The airbases affected by the US announcement Credit: ITV Anglia

The closure of RAF Mildenhall is the main headline in the announcement from the Pentagon.

The Suffolk base - which is home to special operation forces, air refuelling tankers and 3200 personnel - will close and most of its work move to Germany.

Here's a list of what's planned:

  • RAF Mildenhall - to close - it's KC-135 re-fuelling planes and the 352nd Special Operations Wing move to Germany. The RC-135 reconnaissance planes will stay in the UK.

  • RAF Alconbury/RAF Molesworth - to close. Most US personnel based there will be transferred to RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire.

  • RAF Lakenheath - to get two squadrons of F-35s from 2020.

RAF Mildenhall has a long and fascinating history as an airbase. Read more here.And you can watch the USAF refuelling planes in action in a report from the ITV Anglia archive here.