G-ANHG
9th Jun 2016, 04:52
I travel from Seattle to England every July to run a vintage car weekend (Pre-War Prescott ? (http://www.prewarprescott.com)). We race up Prescott hill on Saturday and then run a navigation rally on the Sunday around the Cotswolds. On the Sunday, I try to fit in as many fords as possible, and there is a great website - WetRoads Entertainment (http://www.wetroads.com) which pinpoints every surviving ford in England, county by county, giving grid reference, photos and details of their navigability, etc.
The rallies are light-hearted treasure hunts, but I always look for historically-significant points of interest to set clues to give the day some depth. Over the years, during my route researches, I have found numerous local memorials placed at the crash sites of various WW2 aircraft which are thought-provoking and offer an opportunity to keep the memory of the lost crews alive.
It occurred to me that I have not found a website out there, like the wet roads website, that brings together data on all of these local crash site memorials, most of which seem to be hidden away on footpaths, woodlands or remote hillsides.
So I'd like to throw out the suggestion that such a web resource would be useful, of interest and also help preserve the memory of those who perished for our freedom both returning from operations and in training exercises and collisions. I know that the aviation archaeologists have a pretty good handle on where the crash sites are, and there are plenty of resources related to 'lost' airfields, but is there a user-friendly resource that lists these crash site memorial stones and plaques, and details the lost crews?
The rallies are light-hearted treasure hunts, but I always look for historically-significant points of interest to set clues to give the day some depth. Over the years, during my route researches, I have found numerous local memorials placed at the crash sites of various WW2 aircraft which are thought-provoking and offer an opportunity to keep the memory of the lost crews alive.
It occurred to me that I have not found a website out there, like the wet roads website, that brings together data on all of these local crash site memorials, most of which seem to be hidden away on footpaths, woodlands or remote hillsides.
So I'd like to throw out the suggestion that such a web resource would be useful, of interest and also help preserve the memory of those who perished for our freedom both returning from operations and in training exercises and collisions. I know that the aviation archaeologists have a pretty good handle on where the crash sites are, and there are plenty of resources related to 'lost' airfields, but is there a user-friendly resource that lists these crash site memorial stones and plaques, and details the lost crews?