Our member Charlie White has been assisting Ian Litchy with his military vehicles and their displays at show.

 25.06.1943 419 Squadron Halifax II JD147 VR-C Fl/Lt. Burton N. Jost D.F.C. 

 REASON FOR LOSS: After taking off from its base at 20:40 hours, Halifax JD147 was intercept to the target over the Netherlands by a night fighter flown by Obw. Reinhard Kollak of 7/NJG-4.  View Loss page Here

We are working on new interactive areas of the community section in “The People’s War History Group”

Messerschmitt 109E “Yellow 3” Wnr.4816 3/JG1 Catalogue No. Luft 0063A Label relating to the flaps & speed recovered from the crash site of Messerschmitt 109E “Yellow 3”  Wnr.4816. Artefact preserved from the Martin “Buzz” O’Brien Collection.

2 more WWII MIAs recovered from Poland are returned to families. On May 16th 2026, Edgar W. Nevois was laid to rest in Praire de Rocher, IL. He was one of the MIAs from the 401st BG B-17 „Son of a Blitz” which was hit on the bomb run to Politz (today Police near Szczecin, Poland) on Oct 7th 1944. German flak blew off the front of the plane, the Fortess went into a vertical dive, hit the ground and exploded. 1 to 4 parachutes were seen to come out during the dive, but no one survived. Read more…….

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 Wnr.5395 Stab/JG51 “Winkel Balkan” Catalogue No. Luft 0056A

MG 17 Gun Mount. Aircraft crashed 28th August 1940, the Bf 109E-4 WNr.5395 was piloted by Oblt. Erich Kircheis, Geschwader Adjutant. Kircheis baled out very low and broke a leg, captured P.O.W.

Artefacts preserved from the late Martin “Buzz” O’Brien Collection.

Back on the 29th September 2007 we made a Visit to the Crash Site of North American Mustang FX876 on the occasion of relative Kelvin Youngs being taken to the site courtesy of our Chairman David King.

 Main Photo:  Kelvin Youngs stands at the crash site of Mustang aircraft FX876 holding a relic from the aircraft that we had purposely left to mark the site for his visit, and he was able to retain this section of wing spar as a souvenir of his visit(Photo: David King)

Many historic Veterans pages are being added to the People’s War History Project, several added today originally research by Alan Scheckenbach of Canberra, Australia for the Society.

Alan Scheckenbach seen here with Kaz Kijak, Veteran Royal Air Force (Polish) Pilot.

Multiple historic society veterans’ stories have now been added to The People’s War History Project.

Work continues daily—both online and offline—across all sections of the project. Our research remains not only to rebuild historic records and preserve the society’s research and remembrance work, but also to uncover and share new, never-before-seen accounts. 

Remembrance Day Is Everyday.

Over the past few weeks we have been working on our historical records, this has also included further additions to our Heritage Collection.
One of these items was a Seat Adjuster from Boulton Paul Defiant N3378.