The role of Allied airmen in World War Two was marked by the dedication of a memorial outside Guernsey Airport on 9th September 2015. It follows more than 50 years of research into the subject by Channel Island aviation historian and Society Archivist John Goodwin, which has found 153 names of those airmen killed in Bailiwick of Guernsey waters during WW2.
… “I congratulate everyone involved in the production of this permanent memorial to those aircrew of all the nations who lost their lives in Bailiwick waters during the course of World War II. I hope, that in unveiling this memorial today, we will bring comfort and closure to the relatives of the gallant airmen who died, and that it will serve for generations to come as a reminder that the privileges we enjoy have come at the cost of great sacrifice by people from all nations who travelled in their prime of life far from home, that we may be free.”
A website is being developed that will eventually show all the information about the airmen remembered on the memorial.
https://fcafa.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/guernsey-allied-aircrew-memorial-dedication/
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