A memorial has been placed at the crash site of Dakota KK194 on Ben Talaidh, Mull. Though as yet I have no details on when and who placed this. Please e-mail me at : dave@earl25.fsnet.co.uk if you know more!
Two new books out at the moment!
`AN UNEXPECTED FOE` by Peter Clark has detailed accounts on Bomber Command Squadron aircraft that crashed on high ground in the UK. Peter is known for his books on aircraft in the Borders region `Where The Hills Meet The Sky`, `A Border Too High` and `Their Corner Of A Foreign Field`.
`PEAKLAND AIR CRASHES` By Pat Cunninham. DFM. has detailed stories of aircraft that came to grief in the White Peak District.
New Booklet on Luftwaffe Aircraft Wrecks in the UK just
come out entitled `GERMAN FIGHTERS over the UK
1939-45` by Alexander Nicoll published as a Wrecks &
Relics book by www.historicmilitarypress.com Aviation
Archaeology research projects etc. Well illustrated.
Link to Foula Isles movie `Edge of The World` made in
1936. Dedicated to Michael Powell & the People of Foula.
STIRLING RECOVERED FROM PEAK DISTRICT.........
RAF News - 31st January 2005 reports:
LJ628 That crashed on a routine exercise on 21st July 1944, has been recovered with Chinook from RAF Odiham, for the Stirling Aircraft
Restoration Project at RAF Wyton.
C-47 Shelf Moor Memorial Vandalised.
I report with sadness that on a recent visit to the C-47 crash site on Shelf Moor near Glossop in Derbyshire, revealed that the memorial plaque placed by the brother of the Co-pilot had been smashed & its contents removed by person or persons unknown,
showing that even areas such as these are not free from the sad society we live in today.
