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The Normandy
Association for Air Remembrance decided to pay a tribute to all of the crews
shot down in Normandy and Maine. As we organize the ceremonies, we are working
in France and abroad to find the families of the aircrew lost over Normandy and
Maine, as well as gathering testimonies of survivors and comrades or whoever had
lived at that time.
The Normandy Association for the Air
Remembrance 1939-1945, have worked since 1994 to honour the memory of aircrew
who fought for our liberty and fell on our soil between 1940 and 1945. Its
members come from all areas of Normandy and Maine and all walks of life. They
all share the same passion for the history of aviation in the second world
war.
Our aim :
Is to fully register
all of the air losses in Normandy during World War II. We identify sites by
means of GPS positioning, and initiate reliable inquiries into French and
foreign record offices.
We co-ordinate ceremonies with
veterans' associations, representatives and military attachés of different
embassies with agreement of the French civil and military authorities. We
welcome aviators' families and friends to these
ceremonies.
We also participate, in cooperation
with allied Air Force veterans' associations. There are many exhibitions where
plane fragments found on the terrain are displayed. We retrace the
aeronautic history of the region, for example the airfields, and contribute this
way to the safeguarding of the nation's heritage as well as to the collective
memory.
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