"Bomber County" Crash Research project Begins

Good, we need more stuff like this.
"Researchers aim to create a definitive record of all known World War II aircraft accidents that happened in the area known as Bomber County.
Lincolnshire became known as Bomber County because it had more than 100 airfields and airstrips in the war.
Bomber County Aviation Resource knows of about 2,000 crashes and accidents there, but expects to collate information on as many as 4,000.
Some pilots crashed and died before they had finished their training.
The group hopes to estimate accurately, for the first time, how many people died because as a result of aircraft accidents.
Graham Platt, a co-founder of the group, said: "It was wartime, there was an awful lot of dying going on, and that kind of thing was heavily censored at the time.
"The number of aircraft that crashed and people that died was sensitive."
Lincolnshire's high concentration of airfields meant the skies were often crowded."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-24651282

 

This is indeed a great effort. I do hope all the 4000+ crashes will be pinned one day, though I believe some of the mystery will remain after all those years. I believe a similar project is made in Holland around the Ijsselmeer where over 1000 aircrafts are believed to have crashed.

 

Gordon-
It's great news, we do need more stuff like this. I posted this story on our sister site ww2talk the other day as I thought it would be of interest.
Going to be one heck of a project.

Lesley