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Remembrance Day Is Everyday

18th 19th August 1990 High Wycombe at War Exhibition held at The Booker Aircraft Museum

The Exhibition included detailed sections relating to the furniture industries involvement in the production of Mosquito aircraft, the Molins Company development of the automatic firing 6lb cannon fitted to some Mosquito Aircraft, Davenport Vernon & Co Ltd. Service and repair to Vickers Wellington Aircraft, the Booker Airfield war time R.A.F. activity training Glider Pilots, along with  major section on High Wycombe home front activities as well as the numerous aircraft recoveries from local crash sites undertaken in the area.

20th September 2008 B25 Mitchell FL193 Memorial Plaque Erected

On the 20th September a small plaque and cross was erected by The Aircrew Remembrance Society, in memory of the crew of B25 Mitchell FL193. In a short but moving ceremony the cross was unveiled by the daughter of one of the crew, Trish Masters. Trish in the company of her daughter Karina were there to remember father and grandfather, Sgt. Eric Bailey and his three comrades, killed at the site on the 21st September 1943, the event of the ceremony therefore taking place on the eve of the 65th anniversary of the crash. Pictures show Trish at the unveiling.

Memorials & Remembrance

21st - 22nd July 2012 Combe Bank School ‘DIG IT’ two day Aviation Archaeology Dig.

Combe Bank School ‘DIG IT’ was a two day Aviation Archaeology investigation Overseen by The Aircrew Remembrance Society. It took place in an area of the school grounds formally occupied by No. 86 Maintenance Unit R.A.F. Base, Sundridge during the Second World War. This was a salvage and repair unit which also held the largest quantity of downed Luftwaffe Aircraft wrecks for striping in preparation for disposal in southern England.

Aviation Archaeology & Crash Investigations

29th March 2013 Vickers Wellington Dig Planned.

Alex King with a section of wing spar found at the site 29th March.

The society applied and was granted a M.O.D. Licence (No. 1737.) with regard to the investigation into the crash of an O.T.U. Wellington. A preliminary scan of the site in March, in preparation for an in depth search around August when the site has been harvested, reviled a number of readings, with the section of wing spar Alex is holding, that was protruding from the soil

Aviation Archaeology & Crash Investigations

28th & 29th September 2013 Investigation into the loss of Vickers Wellington Mk X HZ375

The investigation and recovery of Vickers Wellington Mk X HZ375 took place over the 28th & 29th of September 2013.

Although the majority of this aircraft was removed at the time of the crash, still many interesting small finds were made.

This recovery was undertaken in memory of eight crew killed when this aircraft crashed. Before the recovery started a few words were spoken on behalf of the crew, and a minutes silence held.

Aviation Archaeology & Crash Investigations


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) Chiltern 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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