Post by magicmuggle01 on Jan 22, 2019 11:28:57 GMT
The following news item was published on the 2nd January 2019.
A memorial to the victims of the crash was erected in the 1970s
Image from BBC site
A social media campaign has been launched to organise a fly-past for the 75th anniversary of a US bomber crash that claimed the lives of 10 airmen.
The B-17 Flying Fortress, known as Mi Amigo, crashed at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, in 1944.
The campaign began after BBC presenter Dan Walker met eyewitness Tony Foulds, who regularly tends to the memorial.
Read:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-46738576
The following link leads to a story that's an update of the above.
www.eadt.co.uk/news/tony-foulds-gets-his-flypast-thanks-to-suffolk-airbase-1-5860855
The campaign had received much support from all over the world.
A memorial to the victims of the crash was erected in the 1970s
Image from BBC site
A social media campaign has been launched to organise a fly-past for the 75th anniversary of a US bomber crash that claimed the lives of 10 airmen.
The B-17 Flying Fortress, known as Mi Amigo, crashed at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, in 1944.
The campaign began after BBC presenter Dan Walker met eyewitness Tony Foulds, who regularly tends to the memorial.
Read:- www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-46738576
The following link leads to a story that's an update of the above.
www.eadt.co.uk/news/tony-foulds-gets-his-flypast-thanks-to-suffolk-airbase-1-5860855
The campaign had received much support from all over the world.
