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Post by Frenchie on Jul 28, 2009 15:03:51 GMT 1
Residents from a French village travelled to RAF Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire last week to pay their respects to a British World War Two bomber crew from the base who died when their aircraft crashed in Burgundy, France. In 1942 a Halifax bomber on a mission to Genoa flew from Linton's 78 Squadron and came down near Montcony in Burgundy killing all eight crewmen on board. To this day the graves of the airmen are still tended to by local French residents. And last week, for the first time, some of those residents visited RAF Linton-on-Ouse to see the base's history room in which details of the crew are held and saw the runway from which the Halifax took off on that fateful day in 1942. Afterwards the French guests visited memorial sites in the Vale of York and Beningbrough Hall where the airmen were billeted. MoD Article >>
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