Hero and legend

[Contigo]

This lovely guy Tony Foulds witnessed the crash of a US airplane during WW2. He tends to their graves too and this has to be one of the most touching things I've ever seen. Hankies at the ready!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtB...xx3iZYCQQDSimzSFcHB3POoeui9-VLeV9c7OUFlW776uI

 

[Wack61]

He'd be around the same age as my dad was in WW2 , born in 1934 so 10 when D Day came , he lived in Kettering , after school they'd ride out to RAF grafton underwood to watch the B17s coming back from Germany , he told many of them were shot to pieces , a few made it back only to crash on landing, to them it was a fantastic spectacle until they got dragged out of a hedgerow by a copper who spelled out how much danger they were in , didn't stop them going though

He said they got turned away by MPs once because one had overshot the runway and finished up straddling the road , it bought back a memory when I saw this picture somebody posted



No win situation for the guys in the link, I'd think I'd choose to take my chances crashing than land on a load of kids

 

[sionie1]

I saw this a few weeks ago when Dan first visited him. What a chap and what a story.

 

[rockits]

Remember seeing that on TV a few weeks back. Amazing man and lovely to see. Hats off to him. Unfortunately a very rare thing these days.

Great to see the council funding it a bit now and recognising his efforts. Pure luck that Dan Walker stumbled across him as nobody would have been any the wiser.

 

[Wack61]

I saw this a few weeks ago when Dan first visited him. What a chap and what a story.

Quite sad that he's carried that guilt for his whole life though, I'm sure nobody on the plane would've wanted that , I think it's guaranteed the flypast will be well attended

 

[Contigo]

Watch BBC News from now until 08:45 when there is a fly past over Sheffield park. Very humbling scenes and lots of relatives over from the US of the deceased airmen.