Since we have started building this remembrance site we have received many emails of support and we thank you for that. We have also been requested to place links on our website - we are more than happy to do this if it relates to our aims and objectives.
Some we have turned down simply because they do not relate to the work we undergo and not because we do not like the site in question!

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Furthermore, www.aircrewremembrancesocety.com does not endorse, sponsor or otherwise approve of any information or images or further links to other sites that appear on these websites.
If any links are not working please advise and we will check them out.

Established by Royal Charter in 1917, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two world wars. It is a non-profit-making organisation that was founded by Sir Fabian Ware. The Aircrew Remembrance Society are proud to be working very closely with C.W.G.C. They have also placed the A.R.S. on their website as they recognise the work that we are undertaking.

"Wings Museum" - Balcombe, West Sussex, England who we are proud to work closely with. Many of the items that we have assisted in recovering are placed in their comprehensive museum. Take some time to look at their site and if you are down that way - pop in and visit the professional way that they are restoring and displaying items from the 2nd World War. They are currently relocating their Museum to a superb new site. The Society visited them in July 2009 for a sneak preview and the layout is outstanding. We will announce the opening date for the new Museum on our news pages.




"Aces of WW2", Canada. A great site for information on Military aviation.. Please check them out and support them as I am sure you will support us!
"Aces of WW2" were the first to support our website - even before we published it. An absolutely huge site - full of information from all nationalities. Great job! Please sign their guestbook and support them, but tell them where you found the link!





The "Dare group" from Holland. We have and will continue to work a great deal with this Association and we are proud to have them also linked to our site.




"Airfields amd Aviation Memorials", Suffolk, England, is a well researched site and worth checking out. It is a website that we will be closely working with in the near future.




"Final destination Slovakia" from the Slovak Republic, an amazing site specialising in lost aircrew and aircraft in Slovakia during the 2nd World War. Fantastic that there are specialist websites involved in keeping the memories alive of the people both we and other nations lost during that conflict.


"Czechoslovak Squadrons", a comprehensive and totally committed website to the Czech pilots who assisted the allies during World War 2. Includes information on 310, 311, 312, 313 and 68 Czech Royal Air Force Squadrons. The Aircrew Remembrance Society hope to work further with them over the coming months.

"Polish Airforces", from Poland. Great site and although they concentrate on Polish Aviation history a great insight into the work involved in this field. They are working with our Society to remember the aircrews lost.


"Messerschmitt 109" - from Berlin, Germany. A great website specialising in this legendary Luftwaffe aircraft. David (Webmaster) and the A.R. Society are working closely together to complete other article for both our websites.

"Cambridge Bomber and fighter Society" a historical tribute to the men of R.A.F. 85 Fighter Squadron. A superb web-site dedicated to the memory of the people who flew in 85 squadron. The Aircrew Remembrance Society are collaborating as much as we are able to assist them further as they are also doing for us.


"Comet Belgium Kinship Association". This great website, who we hope to work with further, research in great detail Aircrew who have been asisted to escape from occupied Belgium during WW2 and explains how the resistance fighters managed to help hundreds of allied aircrew back to England.


"UK-Warbirds" a great site, where you can find out more specialised descriptions of aircraft used in the W.W.2. period. We reccommend this site as a good source of technical information and news of forthcoming events.




"Mulbarton Aviation Group", Norfolk, England - a great website, full of interesting information and one we hope to work closely with over the coming months regarding our research and recoveries.


"Flyvrak" Norway, a tremendous website that we have worked a great deal with in the past. They concentrate on all losses, regardless of nationality, that occurred during World War 2 on Norwegian soil. Check it out and if you find the time please sign the guest-book - all sites that help to honour those who served in that war deserve to be supported.


"Soldier Blue" a British based and international World War 2 R.A.F. living history group, dedicated to portraying the wartime R.A.F. Regiment and other R.A.F. Specialist units that people tend to forget about. The tribute section is particularly moving. Turn down your volume though, music very stirring!


"The Blenhein Society", from Hertfordshire, England. The Blenheim Society was set up to commemorate the aircrew of the Bristol Blenheim bomber/fighter of World War 2. These group of aircrew became known as the "Blenheim Boys "The society celebrates 21 years and 71 years of the Blenheim.

"Aeroplane monthly", from the United Kingdom. The best features on fighters, civil and military aircraft. Great articles and another magazine that values what our Society is recording. Available also as a magazine subscription.


"Wings to Victory", from Holland. A superb website - mainly in Dutch and also a museum well worth visiting if you are over there. We have only recently been in contact with this group although for sure we will be working with them more in the coming months. Turn down your volume though, another website that likes the music!


"In Memory", from Belgium. A very comprehensive guide to cemeteries located in France and Belgium. Pierre Vandervelden has done some great work and I am sure he would be grateful if you have any further information for his site.

"Aviation Archaeology", from United States of America. Great site and although they concentrate on USA Military air losses a great insight into the work involved in this field. They are working with our Society to remember the aircrews lost. Working together - working to remember the aircrews!

"Britain at War", from Engand. We are very proud to announce that our Society and it's website have had very positive reviews in an article within the superb "Britain at War" publication. Please see latest news section to read the article or better still, subscribe to it - the magazine is really a great publication and you can find out more about it by clicking onto this link.






"Thirty Thousand Feet" is a huge directory of web pages, blogs, podcasts, forums and other on-line resources with aviation content. You will find links to commercial, government, military, organisational and personal sites. Some sell products and services and others provide them free. Many off simply information or opinions. They have kindly listed our site in order for relatives and friends of former aircrew to contact us.







"Polish Squadrons remembered" A cluster of the Internet sites commemorating Polish Air Force units in World War Two.
The first page starts: On June 8, 1946, the Allies celebrated their World War II success with the London Victory Parade without Polish colors flying and without Polish soldiers present.




"Just an ordinary crew" - this website is dedicated, as its title suggests, to just an ordinary crew of Bomber Command in World War II.  They wouldn't have regarded themselves as heroes, nor in the commonly accepted sense, were they.  But like thousands of other men from across the world, for a variety of reasons, they chose to volunteer to serve as aircrew in the RAF, knowing that from the outset even of initial training, their lives were in danger and that many, many of them would eventually pay the supreme sacrifice.

"Diary of Bruce Johnson" This website chronicles the training and tour of operation of Lancaster bomber pilot Bruce Johnston, through the diary he kept during his time with the RCAF in 1944. His diary listings are transcribed here word for word, and provide a fascinating, and unedited view of life for a young Canadian pilot in both Bomber Command, and Britain during World War II.
"RAF Bomber Command Memorial Fund" This is part of the fast moving project to have built a Memorial to this section of the Royal Air Force. It is amazing that we still don't have one. Working in conjunction with the Daily Telegraph - support them with as little or as much as you can.




"RAF Bomber Command Memorial Fund" This is part of the fast moving project to have built a Memorial to this section of the Royal Air Force. It is amazing that we still don't have one. Working in conjunction with the Daily Telegraph - support them with as little or as much as you can.


In creating this site it is hoped to bring a little known but vitally important part of history into the open; Tempsford Airfield was the base for some of the most secret squadrons of the war. Their mission was to deliver arms, ammunition, radios and other equipment to the resistance movements in German occupied countries. They also specialised in the delivery of agents either by parachute or by landing at night in a moonlit field, their landing lights and guidance usually being just three torches.The Aircrew Remembrance Society will in future be working very closely with Tempsford Squadrons and has opened up another valuable research area.

A web site dedicated to the father of Andy Smith - Walter John Smith - well researched and also a friend of our Society who has assisted us with various articles. Nicely laid out and easy to follow - great work.


This website aims to give a full spectrum of data on World War II fighting units, including details on organization, commanders, and literature. All units from different countries can be included in due time. When they can find the time, and get enough response from enthusiast people who like to contribute to the site with information, scans etc., this site could grow into a marvelous reference work on World War II military history.Please, contact them with your opinion about this initiative, or when you think you can contribute in any way. Hans Houterman & Jeroen Koppes.





It will be almost exactly 70 years to the month, since many Polish men and women had to leave Poland to continue, in the words that have now passed into Polish Folklore, to work & fight ‘For Our and Your Freedom’. From these some came to Faldingworth in 1944. Many to lose their lives and many more never to see their families again. Also joining them for a time were service men and women from Britain and the Commonwealth, many also giving their lives for us.




A brief study of an old Bomber command airfield in Lincolnshire, During the second world war, R.A.F. Lancasters flew from this airfield on operations. With their crew of seven, one hundred and seventeen of these would never return. Support Martin Nichols on the fine work he has done with his dedication.

A thorough research (and ongoing) into the loss of this 11 O.T.U. Wellington that crashed on 30th April 1941. John Clarke, the grandson of one of the crew members, has spent years researching this loss and also covers members of the public that assisted in saving some of the crew members.




Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust aims to preserve and protect our priceless airfields as well as educate the nation to the rich heritage and contribution they have made to our society both past and present.





Martin has assisted us greatly with re-producing some of our extensive photographic archive in order that we can use it on our web site and also make them available to the relatives concerned. Photographer Martin Fry shoots in the region of 3500 new pictures a year to add to the 53, 000 images in his  Stock Image library, of which generally 100 to 150 images a year are in publication somewhere in the World as Greetings cards, postcards, calendars or printed onto other paper and fabric products.

The RAF Wickenby Memorial Collection was set up in the late 1990s in commemoration of the men and women of 12 & 626 Squadrons who served at Wickenby during WWII and also 92 & 93 Maintenance Units who were here from 1945 to 1956. The Collection, which is run by a group of dedicated volunteers is situated in the upstairs of the old Control Tower looking out over two of the original runways which are still in use today.

The Spitfire Association was formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1960. The Association has three principal purposes:
1: To commemorate, through ANZAC Day and other special events, the extraordinary actions of our members who served in wartime to defend and continue our democracy and freedoms;
2: To keep alive the memory of the Spitfire, an aircraft that set new standards in aviation technology, giving out founding members the means to achieve their objectives in theatres of war around the world; and
3: To support and grow the Spitfire Memorial Defence Fellowship Scheme (administered by The University of NSW and the Australian Defence Force), in order to ensure that future generations of Australians have the opportunity to contribute excellent research in the area of defence.

The basic premise of the Project Propeller scheme is to match up WWII RAF air crew with current pilots and to gather together for a day at a significant location. The air crew and pilots meet up at a convenient airfield, fly to the venue for the day, then fly back home once the event comes to an close. In addition (and all other conditions being favourable) it is hoped that the veteran air crew get an opportunity for some more "stick and rudder" time.

The Aircrew Remembrance Society are delighted to work with the webmaster of this website which is dedicated to all who served with 10 OTU at RAF Abingdon, RAF Stanton Harcourt and RAF St Eval.

A great English folk duo who wrote and produced the great song "Mr. Mitchell's Angels" - which can be heard when you visit their website. They are available to play at charity events and support the work of the Aircrew Remembrance Society.

The Tower Museum Bassingbourn is housed in the original control tower that dates back to the 1930's when the airbase was constructed. One of the first museum's in the country to be housed in an original control tower, the Museum opened in 1974; its aim to educate visitors in the history of this world famous base when the RAF and the USAAF were stationed here.

The initial purpose of Aérostèles is to make a list of the whole memorials regarding aviation events in France and only french airmen in foreign countries. As around a third of the list concerns people from USA or British Commonwealth they decided to start a light version in english. Light means that the records translation is not complete, titles are still in french, text for localisation and event description is not included, that only because it takes too much time to translate more than 1000 records. Also a few pages or functions available in french are not yet translated into english.