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Posted: 2/9/2017 4:06:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 1/20/2019 7:13:20 PM EDT
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Don't know how I missed this, but thanks for posting. I had no idea....
Great museum. I found this thread while looking for an image of the memorial of the crash in which my uncle died in Portpatrick, Scotland: 
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Posted: 1/22/2019 1:26:40 PM EDT
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Thanks for that.
There's a moving story over the last few weeks where a man has been tending a memorial to a B17 crew, and he has been doing so for 75 years partly as he feels they lost their lives trying not to kill him. A BBC reporter saw him tending the site and asked about his story, mentioned it on air and now both US and UK Air Forces are joining for a tribute flypast on the 75th anniversary of the crash next month. MORE HERE |
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Posted: 1/22/2019 3:42:26 PM EDT
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I posted this thread almost two years ago!
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Thanks for that. There's a moving story over the last few weeks where a man has been tending a memorial to a B17 crew, and he has been doing so for 75 years partly as he feels they lost their lives trying not to kill him. A BBC reporter saw him tending the site and asked about his story, mentioned it on air and now both US and UK Air Forces are joining for a tribute flypast on the 75th anniversary of the crash next month. MORE HERE |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 6:18:36 AM EDT
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A few links I've found are below. If you search for "Sheffield B17 crash" it should give you more links.
From the Daily Telegraph BBC LINK Another from the BBC BBC news snippet |
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Posted: 1/23/2019 4:30:42 PM EDT
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Thank you.
He said: “I can remember it clearly to this day. Me and a few mates had a problem with a few other lads from a neighbouring school and we arranged to meet in the park basically to have a fight.
“When we got there we saw the plane circling above the park. The airmen were waving at us, but being young boys we just thought they were waving being friendly. We were only eight. “But it was them saying ‘get out of the way’. When we didn’t realise he tried to take off again, he tried to rev off. The next thing that happened it went over the trees and there was a huge explosion. Straight into the ground.” 
What men those men were. 
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