US officials honour UK man who tends memorial of US Airmen

US officials honour UK man who tends memorial of US Airmen | iNFOnews.ca
Tony Foulds, 82, reacts as warplanes from Britain and the United States stage a joint flypast tribute to Foulds and ten dead US airmen Friday Feb. 22, 2019, at Endcliffe Park in Sheffield, 75-years after Foulds witnessed the crash that killed them. Foulds was just a child playing in the park on Feb. 22, 1944, when a U.S. Air Force crew decided to crash and die rather than take the chance of hitting the playing children. For decades Foulds has tended a memorial dedicated to honouring the 10 U.S. airmen who died in the plane crash at Endcliffe Park, and today the flypast fulfils his wish for the men who saved his life. (Danny Lawson/PA via AP)

LONDON – U.S. officials have honoured a British man who has for decades tended a memorial for 10 U.S. World War II airmen who sacrificed their lives to save children in Sheffield, England.

Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson sent a tweet Saturday thanking Tony Foulds for “remembering and honouring our Airmen.” Missouri Governor Michael Parson has issued a proclamation honouring Foulds for his “profound devotion” to commemorating the crew of the B-17 nicknamed “Mi Amigo.”

Missouri pilot Lt. John Kriegshauser was attempting to land his damaged plane at a Sheffield park in 1944 when he pulled up to avoid a group of children and crashed into the woods.

Foulds, 82, was one of those children.

The U.S. and Royal Air Force honoured the crew with a flypast Friday, fulfilling Foulds’ lifelong dream.

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