How Sheffield pensioner Tony Foulds and the Mi Amigo plane crash has inspired a new D-Day campaign

By Lee Peace
Published 2nd Apr 2019, 09:22 BST
Updated 5th Apr 2019, 18:51 BST
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The story of Sheffield pensioner Tony Foulds and the Mi Amigo plane crash has inspired a new campaign aimed at shining a light on other wartime stories in the lead up to the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

Tony was only a young boy when he witnessed the badly damaged American bomber B-17 Flying Fortress, known as Mi Amigo, crash into Endcliffe Park in 1944, killing all 10 crewmen on board.

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The 82-year-old Lowedges man says he has spent the last several decades tending to a memorial dedicated to the airmen and was the inspiration behind a campaign for a military flypast that was watched by thousands of people in the park, and millions more live on TV, in February to mark 75 years since the tragedy.

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F-15s seen from Endcliffe Park in Sheffield Picture: Danny Lawson/PA WireF-15s seen from Endcliffe Park in Sheffield Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
F-15s seen from Endcliffe Park in Sheffield Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

In light of the event, US Ambassador to the UK Robert ‘Woody’ Johnson has now launched the #KeepTheMemoryAlive75 campaign to discover British stories about the American soldiers based in this country in the run up to D-Day.

Ambassador Johnson is calling on people across the country to get in touch to share their own stories of the Americans who lived in their communities during the Second World War.