MEMORIALS OF U.S. “ACTION STATIONS”
PLANS IN ESSEX Plans are being made in Essex for an “action stations” chain of memorials to American airmen who took off from there to bomb Germany. A committee has been appointed, led by Sir Francis Whitmore, L'ordLieut. of the county, to contact in America ex-members of the U.S. Bth and 9th Air Forces. The committee hope to put up a simple memorial on each airfield. They have to act quickly before the fields are all under the plough again and the last signs of the American “occupation” vanish. People in Colchester, Braintree, Dunmow, and Saffron Walden districts are behind this scheme, which has the backing of Essex AngloAmerican Goodwill Association. High officers of the U.S.A.F. are interested. Brigadier-General Koenig has told the committee: “It would be a great gesture if a hut or a shack were to be maintained for all time, with perhaps a tablet suitably inscribed. Then when the American airman comes back with his wife and children he can show them the exact spot where he so often took off to bomb Berlin.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 4
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182MEMORIALS OF U.S. “ACTION STATIONS” Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 75, 20 January 1947, Page 4
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