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Endcliffe Park Sheffield 9. 7. 26.
Endcliffe Park Bonfire, Sheffield, 1970
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Another lovely walk with the girls today! Endcliffe Park to Forge Dam for a coffee and then a pit stop for a steak salad bowl and smoothie!
Endcliffe Park Sheffield 7. 5. 26.
Will there be tears from Tony again?
ON SUNDAY, February 25, there will be a poignant ceremony at a war memorial in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. It will be the 80th anniversary of the incident in which the United States Flying Fortress bomber Mi Amigo crashed on the site in 1944, where the memorial now stands. All ten crew were killed. Thanks to £21,000 raised by the Sheffield branch of the Royal Air Force Association, comrades in…
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"Mi Amigo" Memorial, Endcliffe Park, Sheffield.
“Mi Amigo” Memorial, Endcliffe Park, Sheffield.
The Mi Amigo memorial is located inside Endcliffe Park in Sheffield and is in memory of the World War II crash site of the USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress Mi Amigo. The plane crashed on the 22 February 1944, as it made its way back from Denmark to base in Northampton. The plane had been badly damaged by Nazi enemy fighters and needed somewhere to land as the engines were failing. The pilot, Lt John…
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Phony Tony gets his star
Phony Tony gets his star
A Flying Fortress seen head on: Picture from Paul Allonby
TO many of those watching pensioner Tony Foulds being given his star in the pavement ‘Walk of Fame’ outside Sheffield Town Hall on Monday he is a hero. This is a man who has spent a lifetime honouring the stricken crew of an American bomber which crashed in wartime Sheffield.
And it is through him that thousands packed the park to watch a…
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Tony and the Mi Amigo – does it add up?
Tony and the Mi Amigo – does it add up?
Tony Foulds outside the memorial
BY now the whole world knows of Tony Foulds, the 82-year-old Sheffield man who almost daily tends the memorial to the crew of the USAAF bomber Mi Amigo which crash landed in Endcliffe Park in February, 1944.
He believes the pilot of the Flying Fortress tried to wave him and other children playing in the park that day out of the way before it crashed. All 10 on…
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