David King - Chairman Aircrew Remembrance Society, Member. (Founder)
Status: Current
Activity Fields & Projects worked on: Aviation Archaeology, Airfield Archaeology, Aircraft Preservation & Restoration, Education, Project coordinator (Field Work) Project (Administrator) Aircraft Recovery Projects & site investigation Projects, Memorial Projects, Missing Aircrew Projects, Peoples War History Project, Moderator.
Society & Group Administration Positions Held: Chairman, Section Page & Project developer.
Work Criteria Fields: Historian, Photographer, Aviation Researcher, Aviation Archaeologist, Author, Crash Site Plan & Artefact Recorder, Memorial Construction.
History of Group Affiliations:Chiltern Historical Aircraft Preservation Group, Duxford Aviation Society, Booker Aircraft Museum, Little Staughton Pathfinder Association, Aircrew Remembrance Society.
David is the founder of this society which was founded back in 1994 following the closure of The Booker Aircraft Museum which he founded in 1982. The museum idea had been championed by David when he was secretary and later chairman of The Chiltern Historical Aircraft Preservation Group which was founded back in 1971
This Remembrance Society for Aircrew was created so as to continue David’s passion for Aviation in many fields including, aircraft preservation and restoration, crash site investigations and aircraft recovery, The foundation of memorials, and most importantly the preservation of researched material and photographic history, along with preserved artifacts in our Heritage collection in relation to the missing and fallen airmen of the Second World War, for their permanent remembrance in our history and education for future generations.
Frequently Used Sources used in Support and illustration of Society Remembrance site pages
Organisations :
I.W.M. (Imperial War Museum) C.W.G.C. (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) P.R.O. (Public Records Office) (National Archives) N.A.A. (National Archives of Australia) The Air Forces Memorial Runnymede Panels (WW2Talk) Chilton Aircraft Preservation Society Archives (David King & Alexander D King) Booker Aircraft Museum Archives, (David King & Alexander D King) Aircrew Remembrance Society Archives
Publications, Authors, Records, Reference works, Press & Press Photography :
Bomber Command Losses (W.R. Chorley All Volumes) Fighter Command Losses (Norman L. R. Franks All Volumes) Air-Britain Serials, Individual Aircraft Files & Publications, Ai-Britain, Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939-1945 (Ray Sturtivant, I.S.O. with Mick Burrow) After The Battle Publications The Blitz Then And Now Volumes 1,2 & 3, The Battle Of Britain Then And Now, The Battle Of France Then and Now, (Editor Winston G. Ramsey, Assistant Editor Gordon Ramsey) Bomber Losses Middle East & Mediterranean (David Gunby & Pelham Temple) Coastal Command Losses (Ross McNeill,) The Nuremberg Raid (Martin Middlebrook), The Source Book (Ken Delve) Mighty Eighth war Diary (Roger A. Freeman) The B-17 Flying Fortress Story (Roger A. Freeman) Daily Telegraph (Harry Flower War Correspondent), Kent Messenger, Planet News, Fox Photos,
Aviation Artist & Profile Illustrators:
Robert Taylor, Mark Postlethwaite, Adam Tooby, Robert Tomlin, Simon Atack, Roy Grinnell, Gerald Coulson, Nicolas Trudgian, Keith Aspinall, Iain Wyllie, Ivan Berryman, Darryl Legg
Individual contributors & Historians:
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