B17 ACCIDENTS FROM ABOVE

[Gil Boyd]

Robert, like Bob, please put them up on the site, really interested in their provenance as well in that your father served with the 8th and took them.

The true stories that come out of the USAF over here in those three years is unbelievable and more should be done in schools especially around us in East Anglia where hundreds of thousnads of American crew flew and fought from and drank in our pubs............and many returned to marry and many ladies left these shores for the U.S.

If you are ever in Cambridge and around Cambridge there is so so much to learn about the USAF in WW2, with Madingley Cemetery where I go every year for a mIlitary remembrance where all the USAF bases have a large contingent turn up, with the missing Eagle as they fly past and the lone Dakota, always a tear jerker for the thousands that come rain or shine!!

The Spread Eagle Pub in Cambridge where I served in the Police, the ceiling in the pub now with a preservation order placed on it, where every crew member signed his name in candle smoke and the Squadrons they flew in, its a remarkable legacy of so many young men that flew from Bassingbourn, now an Army barracks, and of course the Imperial War Museum at Duxford and the American museum there, which is massive and rightly so, on the old Spitfire base where Douglas Bader flew his 212 Squadron from during the Battle for Britain...............dont just come for two weeks you'll need a month!!