Books about aviation memorials

13 Jan 2010 22:54 #1 by REF
Books about aviation memorials was created by REF
8th Air Force Remembered - George H Fox
Aeronautical Memorials of Norfolk - Huby Fairhead
Aeronautical Memorials of Suffolk - Huby Fairhead
Air Force Memorials of Lincolnshire - Mike Ingham
Aviation Landmarks - Jean Gardner
Aviation Memorials of Essex - Paul Doyle
Britain's Aviation Memorials & Mementoes - David J Smith
Light Perpetual - David Beaty
Memorials to the Mighty Eighth - Dennis F Lain

Anyone think of any others?

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14 Jan 2010 23:27 #2 by David Thompson
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For Your Tomorrow , British Second World War Memorials by Derek Boorman self published in March 1995 and printed by Ebor Press , York .
Softback ; ISBN 0 9513654 1 X
Hardback ; ISBN 0 9513654 2 8
Both A4 format , excellent illustrations on gloss paper . Most black and white with some colour and superb quality . Sorry , no price on cover and I cannot recall the price I paid new .
At The Going Down of The Sun , British First World War Memorials by the same author . NFD .

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14 Jan 2010 23:57 #3 by David Thompson
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Aeronautical Pubs and Inns of Britain , Dave Smith with Ken Ellis , Midland Publishing Ltd , 1995 , ISBN 1 85780 048 6 , £5-95 . Number 3 in the Aviation Pocket Guide series in association with Flypast magazine .
No1 ; British Airfield Buildings of the Second World War , Graham Buchan Innes
No2 ; Aviation Museums of Britain , Ken Ellis
No4 ; Discover Aviation Trails , Paul Shaw
All published although British Airfield Buildings Volume 2 ; The Expansion and Inter-War Periods , also by Graham Buchan Innes came later .
Pubs with aviation themed names and particularly their signs are often an indication to a local aviation connection , event or airfield and as such are perhaps worth inclusion in this thread . Unless they are in another thread.....?

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28 Jan 2010 11:33 #4 by David Thompson
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There are probably several books or booklets which have been published about individual aviation memorials rather than list compilations and I do not include dedication Order of Service booklets in this . Two in my collection are ;
The RAF St Eval Memorial - an A4 size booklet sold at a minimum suggested price of £1 in aid of church funds and available inside the church which is , certainly was , open to the public and stands in the NW corner of the airfield and signed off the local roads . The booklet has a description of the memorial , the stained glass window , plaques and Book of Remembrance plus a potted history of the airfield and a list of resident units . Last edition I have is July 2004 .
Strathpeffer Aircrew Memorial Bandstand - another A4 booklet with card covers produced in 1997 by the Highland Branch , Aircrew Association to raise funds for a memorial to the many WWII Aircrew of all nationalities who were killed or wounded while flying operationally or on training sorties from the 32 bases (Airfields , harbours and Flying-Boat moorings) in the Highlands , the Islands and the Grampian area of Northern Scotland .
There is a list and map of these bases plus a description of the memorial .

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