The North Yorkshire Moors has been my main research area and the incidents detailed in that section reflect on many years of research. In the long term I may write some form of book on these moorland incidents.

All images on this website remain under copyright of their owners and may not be copied from this website to make financial gain, or for use in any book / printed format without prior permission of the website owner, me, Richard Allenby, first. Copyright of all photographs of airmen shown on this website remain with the families of these airmen who have kindly contacted me. Please respect the families of airmen, they have been willing to donate these photos for inclusion in this website, for the same photo to appear elsewhere may cause un-necessary alarm. Please contact me if you wish to use any images on this website by clicking the EMAIL link. The website www.ni78.com has not done this and have robbed all my photographs and put them on their website without contacting me.

Whilst not all incidents detailed on this website were aircraft and crews of Bomber Command, many were and whilst there is no proper memorial to Bomber Command personnel this web-page is dedicated to their sacrifice. Yorkshire was probably second only to Lincolnshire in terms of airfields and airmen passing through. Around 125,000 personnel of all nationalities served in Bomber Command through-out the War with the huge number of 55,500 being killed. In terms of losses in the UK; 8,195 were killed in flying accidents or ground accidents and 47,268 were killed in action or died as a PoW. Their loss has never been officially recognized but in 2010 a national memorial was approved and will be sited in Central London.

These pages are also in regcognition of the work and indepandant research done by two gentleman over many years who are now no longer with us. The former 158 Squadron Association Chairman and squadron historian Mr Eddie Fell died in October 2009 after a long illness. Eddie's research crossed over with my Yorkshire research and he kindly shared some of his very detailed research which is displayed on a number of these webpages. It is a pleasure to ensure that some of his work is able to live on. In June 2010 Mr Brian Rapier died, his superb books "White Rose Base" and "Melbourne 10" are his more widely known achievements. His lesser known but perhaps more important activities were the fieldwork done in the 1960's and 70's and the creation of the museum in York (though sadly now defunct). His name will surely be the one remembered for starting aviation research as we now know it in Yorkshire.