I totally agree. If a B17 were about to crash the crew certainly wouldn’t be aware of people in their way until it was within a few hundred metres of them at best. Have any of the readers noticed people near the approach when they have been landing without a major emergency in progress? Pilot’s about to crash avoiding schools is another fact which I have always thought suspect too.
Anyway good luck to the old gentleman who has kept the crew’s memory alive for all these years. Their contribution to the conflict should never be forgotten.