This topic reminds me of the Fw 189 which appears several times in the remarkable 1980s Russian war film “Come and See”. Always seen from below and making a sinister droning noise. I assume it was a model but maybe not! The film has been on British TV at least once and depicts – to shattering effect – the partisan war in what is now Belarus.

The Perch Rock Museum at New Brighton is still very alive, as is the fin of the C-47 complete with the 27th ATG’s black and white (or yellow? can’t remember) striped tip. Don’t know of the ghost stories but the area round Dulyn is certainly a graveyard of aeroplanes.

In the unlikely event of English airfields being threatened with serious air attack or even invasion, there was a fallback plan to base 800 B-29s in Northern Ireland, plus B-32s later. The plan was not abandoned until May 1944 and a project to extend many runways to the necessary 9,000 feet was shelved. I have also found in an obscure PRO (sorry, Natl Archives!) file, a reference to a plan to build the B-29 in Britain. There are no details and I have never read anything to substantiate this.