Sheffield war memorial caretaker hails ‘marvellous’ response after tools stolen
by Robyn Vinter North of England Correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6P6YG)
Tony Foulds, who maintains shrine to airmen he saw die in 1944, to have kit replaced after TV's Dan Walker steps in
Tony Foulds and his friends had gone to the local field to fight some kids from a rival primary school when he heard a noise overhead.
It was 1944 and he was used to the sound of German aircraft over the skies near Sheffield. But this was an aircraft he'd never seen before. It was a B-17 Flying Fortress, an American heavy bomber, and it was on fire.
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