During my research I have no doubt greatly annoyed my wife, Caroline, by my constant use of the computer and who sometimes gets dragged along on a search trip or two and to my sister who hasn't yet been dragged along but can't get through to me on the phone!

Thanks must firstly go to the families of airmen who have kindly contacted me, without which this website would not be as complete. Thanks also to Messers John Skinn, Howard Newbould, Graham Sharpe, Eric Barton, Nick Roberts, David Thompson, Ken Reast, Jim Corbett and the rest of the ACIA folks, Bill Norman, David Earl, Albert Pritchard, Andy Hunter, Jim Rutland, Michael Hurst, Will Lund and to the staff of the North Yorkshire Library Service.

The following books and documents have been a great help in my research :

The RAF Museum. Hendon.

"Air Ministry" documents - AM1180, AM78, Form 765(c), Unit O.R.B.s

The C.W.G.C. website and database.

The UK National Archives.

WarMuseum.CA - a Canadian website with a searchable newspaper archive.

RAF Bomber Command Losses series of nine books - W R Chorley.

Hell On High Ground 1 & 2 - David W Earl.

Failed To Return, Broken Eagles, Luftwaffe Over The North & 640 Sqdn Leconfield - Bill Norman.

White Rose Base and Warplanes Return - Brian J Rapier.

Yorkshire Airfields In The Second World War - Patrick Otter.

High Ground Wrecks and Relics, Britains Military Airfields 1939-45, various "Crash Log" publictaions - David J Smith.

The East Moor Experience - Brian Shields.

Aerodromes In North Yorkshire and Wartime Memories and the RAF Thornaby book - David Brown.

Some Of the Many { 77 Squadron } - Roy Walker.

Nova Scotia Air Force Fatalities - Douglas A Stallard.

Post-War Yorkshire Airfields - Barry Abraham.

Some Of Our Aircraft Are Missing - Bob Dunn.

RAF Pocklington and Elvington War Diaries - Mike Underwood.

RAF Fighter Command Losses Vols 1,2&3 - Norman L R Franks.

Wings Over York {RAF Rufforth} - Brain Mennell.

RAF & RCAF Aircraft Nose Art - Clarence Simonsen.

Various "Crash Log" publications - Nick Roberts.

Action Stations 4 - B Barrymore Halfpenny.

Pilots notes for the Halifax Mk 3 & 7 - Crown Copyright.

Series of post-war RAF losses books (under various names) - Colin Cummings.

Thunderbirds at War (429 Sqdn) - Larmot.

Goosepool (a history of Middleton St. George) - Stanley D Howes.

Air Crashes in the Lake District - Michael J Hurst.

Aircraft crashes on the North Yorkshire Moors - Howard Newbould (Unpublished).

Coastal Command Losses 1939-41 - Ross McNeill.

The Yorkshire Post.

The Yorkshire Evening Press.

The Scarborough Evening News.

The Northern Echo.

The Darlington and Stockton Times.

The Malton Gazette & Herald.

No account detailing aircraft crashes in Yorkshire would be complete without a photo of the great man, Mr Brian Rapier. Without his early efforts in the 1960s and 1970s in recording these incidents later researchers would not have his work to turn to. This photograph shows him at a Dornier crash site on the North Yorkshire Moors. His books are still some of the greatest books on the subject and are a must for anyone with an interest.