Hello James and welcome to the forum.

I'm just down the road from where you used to live, i live in a village called Crawshawbooth (just outside Rawtenstall).....

Thanks for the welcome, Bader40 -- nice to see another Lanky on the Forum. Yes, I have been to Crawshawbooth -- I used to take the Ribble bus from Burnley -- stopping in Rawtenstall -- to Manchester when I worked at Metropolitan Vickers (Trafford Park) in the late 1940s.

James

I'll introduce myself here as well, Stevin Oudshoorn from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Marion and I got in contact through Mr. Art Morneweck, whose brother is buried in The Netherlands after being KIA on April 12, 1945. I have him on my website and Marion has a great tribute on this webiste for him as well.

I am amazed by how this site is growing both in perspective and size! Thanks to Marion I have also been in contact with several veterans and have now Mr. Palmer's book, which I recommend to everyone. I am a slow reader but this book I finished in no time!

Also big thanks for Marion for keeping an eye out for the technical well being of my site.

As to myself; After years of working as an editor I went back to university to study history. ( ) I try and research the lives and deaths of all the Allied soldiers that were killed in The Netherlands or are buried here. That is what my website is about. I hope it is a fitting tribute to these men. Furthermore I read and try to study everything to do with the land and air war in ETO.

I'll be back!

Greetings,

Stevin