h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I spent my former years in a Suffolk village next to the 9th USAAF base at Horham which was a large B17 base. Although born in July 1945, I can remember this deserted airbase was our magical and sometimes dangerous playground as kids. I could go on for ever about the impressions of a young lad exploring this vast errily silent airfield in the middle of East Anglia. The activities at Horham Airbase still dominated the conversations of my immediate family for 10 or more years after the end of the war.

A fair proportion of the kids in my class at school were a result of the romancing between American airmen and local women and there is plenty of mileage for literary snapshots of what happened to these communities after the Americans left in May 1945. There may be many books covering the presence of the Americans during the war years, but I cant remember seeing any reporting the aftermath of their leaving in 1945. Has anyone covered this postwar period?