1994 - 2007
This first period of the Aircrew Remembrance Society's work covers our formation and our work including investigations into crashes further afield in France, Holland & Germany. Further work continued also in the UK and our final recovery in this period would lead us to our first online presence.
EF= 6th June 1998. Funeral service for Luftwaffe Pilot Uffz. Herbert Blochberger
On the 6th June 1998 members of the society gathered with relatives of former missing Luftwaffe Pilot Uffz. Herbert Blochberger, for his funeral service at the Deautscher Soldatenfriedhof Cimetiere Militaire Allemand 1939 – 1945 Champigny, St. Andre, France. Herbert was recovered in France along with the remains of Messerschmitt Me109 on the 23rd November 1996.
NG= 14th July 2007 Recovery of Bristol Blenheim IV Serial No. R3912 13 O.T.U. (Operational Training Unit)
This aircraft took off from Bicester at 0950 hours on a training cross-country flight. Shortly before 1220, eyewitnesses saw the Blenheim in a near vertical dive, entering a large area of whitish cloud which was estimated to have its base at 3,000 to 5,000 feet. On emerging from cloud, the Blenheim appeared to straighten out but then dived again and crashed resulting in the tragic loss of the three airmen at Pawlett Hams on the East bank of the River Parrett, 4 miles north of Bridgwater, Somerset.
NH=18th August 2007. Visit to Epping Cemetery to locate a war grave and pay our respects to a Polish pilot Warrant Officer Aleksander Pietrzak
Visit to Epping Cemetery to locate a war grave and pay our respects to a Polish pilot Warrant Officer Aleksander Pietrzak whose aircraft crash site we were visiting for the first time that same day. The purpose of our visit to the crash site on the 18th August 2007 was in order to meet with the farmer and land owner to discuss the possible excavation of Aleksander's P-51 III Mustang FX867, in his memory.
NI=15th September 2007. A Minutes silence is held in memory of Polish pilot, Warrant Officer Aleksander Pietrzak
As with all of our crash site investigations a minutes silence is always held in respect for any crew members involved in the incident. In this case a minutes silence was held in memory of Polish pilot, Warrant Officer Aleksander Pietrzak before the Recovery of Mustang III Serial No. FX867 R.A.F. 309 (Polish) Squadron.
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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
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