Many course photographs from 19 O.T.U. are currently being added to The Project and will continue to be uploaded over the coming months.

Our sincere thanks go to Andrew Phenodos for his dedicated research and the copying of these photographs. His work is helping to build a detailed collection that will allow all identified crew members to be searched by name within The Project.

We have started preserving a record of these course photos relating to O.T.U.’s in the People’s War History Project.

Andrew Phenodos has been researching archives and has uncovered several different O.T.U. Course photographs.

We are still working our way the digitalising our collection of artefacts, several have been added over the last month including these B-17 artefacts.

The project needs your help,  Whirlwind Fighter Project aim to reproduce a Westland Whirlwind Fighter and we need your help. It is intended that the project will result in a non-airworthy reproduction of the Westland Whirlwind, built to available original plans, with (where possible) original materials. The reproduction will use whatever original structure, parts, including engines, undercarriage and (deactivated / replica) armament, as are currently available. The intention is to produce a reproduction aircraft which is indistinguishable from an aircraft in Squadron service during the Second World War.

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.