The 80th anniversary of this tragic crash is on November 10th, 2023, at 10:35 a.m. A small team of dedicated volunteers in the United Kingdom and the United States are planning a very special memorial to honor and remember the 17 men killed in this B-17 crash. All are welcome to attend and support this project. Family of the fallen are warmly invited to contact us to share stories, research or photographs. For more details on this B-17 memorial project and travel recommendations, please click on added by marykake47286 FOLD3 profile below to send a message asking to get in contact with the team via Steve Andrews in the UK and Wendy Rust in the US.

Please use this link for the B-17 Crash Memorial Project. https://www.gofundme.com/f/brome-b17f-crash-memorial-fundraiser

Sources:

www.ancestry.com

www.findagrave.com

www.americanairmuseum.com

www.newspapers.com

www.familysearch.org

Bomber Stories by Ian MacLachlan

Eye Police Report

Overseas Crash Report

Commonwealth War Graves

This story is part of the Stories Behind the Stars project (www.storiesbehindthestars.org). This is a national effort of volunteers to write the stories of all 400,000+ of the US WWII fallen here on Fold3. Can you help write these stories? Related to this, there will be a smartphone app that will allow people to visit any war memorial or cemetery, scan the fallen's name and read his/her story.