Mark Vincent contacted the society regarding one of our loss pages and gave us further details regarding the original war time photographer of these Bomb Disposal Photographs, his Great Uncle, Sqn Ldr Dinwoodie of the RAF BD.
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It’s wonderful to see the school’s ongoing support and dedication to remembrance at our memorial site. Covered this month by the What’s On in Wing Magazine.
On Thursday 6 November, Erin and James—two pupils from Overstone Combined School—took part in the Remembrance event at the former RAF Station Wing. The site is home to a permanent memorial honouring all who served at RAF Wing, including those who gave their lives there during World War II.
We Will Remember Them.
Today we will be adding remembrance stories of the fallen to our website and across social media platforms.
#RemembranceDayIsEveryday
We are working through our heritage collection preparing many more items to add to our online collection. Recent additions include -
Artefacts preserved from the Martin “Buzz” O’Brien Collection - Junkers Ju88 WNr 550581.
Supermarine Seafire F.15 SR611, various war time equipment held by the society and more.
A new group has been set for discussions from any of our supporters or members who would like to be more hands on with the society, moderating pages & groups, building remembrance pages, managing their own sections and more.
We are working through many section on the site, including The People’s War History Project, Aircraft Losses & The Societies Archive Library.
New records being added daily over the coming weeks to our Luftwaffe losses, Airforce, Navy, Army & Home Front sections in our project and more.
As it was now over six weeks since contacting Cotswold Archaeology Fieldwork officer Adrian Scruby (26th August 2025 Archaeological Survey) and also providing him with crash documentation relating Mosquito HK304, along with our offer of help and assistance, I was there for surprized when I phoned him yesterday to be told without explanation that their excavations were finished, which is strange as they had started numerous trenches over a wide area? I was also told that my request for the society to help survey the finds had been denied by the property developers Persimmon Homes, who own the land and intend to build 170 new dwellings on this prime arable land. The documentation relating to Mosquito HK304 had also been forwarded to Persimmon Homes. David King.
We are most grateful to Karen Bak for sharing this fine collection of eleven photographs of Halifax HX348, taken by her father, Gustav Broder Christensen shortly after the crash, and preserved by him in his treasured World War 2 photo album. Thank you so much Karen for allowing us to share your father’s most impressive photography, these will be reproduced here in his memory and that of the crew of HX348.
Many new sections and tools being worked on behind the scenes, including additional advanced tools available to our members. We are also currently working on reconstructing many other sections of the site in all our categories.
We are working our way through many of our historic remembrance pages, this week we have been adding more Luftwaffe pages.
Please check our Aircraft losses for many new additions.
New Remembrance Page constructed.
Researched and compiled by former member M Brownless and Bob Kessels in memory of the loss of this crew. Thanks also to WASt, Germany 2021. All images regarding Matthias Berg belong to Bob Kessels (NL).
Our thoughts are with the family of the pilot of spitfire MK356 who tragically lost his life 25/05/24. The Spitfire is part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight , crashed near its home station at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. Blue skies.
Homes were evacuated in two parts of Devon as bomb disposal teams dealt with the separate discoveries of unexploded devices.
Plymouth City Council said a small number of residents on Millbay Road were "strongly advised to leave their homes for their own safety" after bomb disposal experts confirmed a 50kg German WWII bomb was found at a building site. A 400m (1,312ft) cordon was in place.
In a separate incident in Exmouth, a 400m cordon was set up at Exmouth Marina after a "suspected unexploded ordnance" was dredged from the water, with properties also evacuated.
The Royal Navy's Devonport-based bomb disposal team was assisting in Plymouth and a unit from the Midlands was in Exmouth.
2026 Happy New Year! To all our Members, Supporters, Readers, Contributors & Followers.
We Will Remember Them!
Over the Christmas period we have been updating our layouts and search facilities, which has included the update on of many of our pages. Many new entries across all our section also such as Aircraft Losses, The Peoples War History Project in all sections, Aviation Archaeology and more.
We have been working hard on perfecting a simple to use navigation across our site, we have also been adding further labels to our pages to assist our search engines. Many additional coming soon over the next few months, including our shop, further remembrance pages, and more
2025 has been a highly productive year for the Society, with major website upgrades, new sections, and ongoing improvements. Many new pages of remembrance being added throughout the last year and many more to come In the year ahead, we look forward to bringing you even more across all areas of our work. Merry Christmas to our readers, followers, members, and volunteers.
Ruth Bourne, left, and fellow veteran, Jean Valentine, stand in front of a replica Turing Bombe machine. Pic: AP
Phil Brown contacted us after following our remembrance work online and has made us aware of his new book recently published.
A few words from the author - The book has been a passion project of mine and i have been truly amazed at the work the ATA did. The book is Historical fiction but based on two real characters Marion Powell Orr and Violet Milstead. These two women were from Canada and traces their adventures starting in the wheat fields of Ontario and following them over the the war torn skies of Britain.
Its a wonderful story and is also a screenplay which i’m in the middle of pitching to production companies in Canada and the Uk. Read More…
This Sunday at 12:30pm, a poppy drop over Duxford airfield was performed by a de Havilland Dragon Rapide At 12.30pm.
11 Photographs, credit (Fans of Duxford)
We Will Remember Them.
We are working through our heritage collection preparing many more items to add to our online collection. Recent additions include -
Artefacts preserved from the Martin “Buzz” O’Brien Collection - Junkers Ju88 WNr 550581.
Supermarine Seafire F.15 SR611, various war time equipment held by the society and more.
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