THIS page will be of interest to everybody, I hope, but particularly so for the people of New York, U.S.A. The picture shows the work that has been carried out on what is known in Nantwich as "the airman's grave". It is part of an initiative for sprucing up land on the banks of the River Weaver which flows through town.

   The consecrated site is cared for by the Nantwich branch of the Cheshire Regiment Association on behalf of a grateful town in memory of a brave American airman who lost his life in the Second World War as he struggled to bring his stricken Thunderbolt plane down away from Nantwich and so avoided causing the deaths of who knows how many Nantwich people, not to mention the damage it would have done. The plane crashed on the outskirts of town on January 14th, 1944. The brave pilot was 1st Lieutenant Arthur L. Brown, a 23-year-old New York man, a member of the U.S.A.A.F.

   At one time the grave was tended by local Brownies (the junior section of the Girl Guides, for those not familiar with the term) who used to put flowers on the grave from time to time, but especially in January. The gravestone says it was laid "with sympathy and respect."  

   While it might seem from the description "airman's grave" that the young man is lying in a neat resting place, the reality is that his body lies with the wreckage of his plane which is still in the crater it created, under this site. The reason is that running sand in this area made recovery impossible.  

 l Airman's sister dies.