The Brits never forget

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 I think this is something lost on a lot of Americans.

This is a good story. Man in the UK was just a boy, when he saw a USAAF B-17 crash in a field near where he was playing. All 10 of the crew were lost. Since that time, he's maintained a memorial to the crew, completely on his own. Tended to it every day.

The BBC found him and did a story, and it caught hold. They arranged a "fly past " and it went off yesterday, on the 75th anniversary of the B-17 crash. It drew a HUGE crowd and was quite a show, the USAF was represented strongly.

Here's the original story and yesterdays " fly past " the Brits call them, we call them flyovers.

This first tweet is a thread,  so click on it to get the entire story,  too many tweets for this post

Then yesterday

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And the crew

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They were in the 100th Bomb Group, one of the original groups that began missions in August 1942, also known as the Bloody One Hundreth due to them sustaining high losses.

Tom Hanks is producing an HBO mini series along lines of Band of Brothers, based on the Bloody 100th