I fear you are tilting at windmills xtango. The folks at the JCCC at Innsworth station (or whatever it’s called these days) who act as gatekeepers of this sensitive casualty information are, first & foremost, MOD Civil Servants who value their jobs. As such they are obligated to follow MOD policies & guidelines. And, as is commonly known, these policies frown on private enterprise seeking lost aircrew, regardless of location. Understandably, there are those who who will hold up the work of certain key figures in the industry as worthy of official recognition, perhaps even a form of partnership. However, not only do these key figures gain at least some form of financial advantage out of it (e.g. magazine articles, books & TV appearances) but it would simply open a pandora’s box of the inevitable cries of favouritism and inequality of treatment from those deemed unworthy of such an honour. So perhaps things are best left as they are.

Now I’ve heard it all…Tilting windmills my ar.e !!..I don’t think your sails are even turning !!

‘gatekeepers of this sensitive casualty information’
If they knew so much, why was F/o Allen left as ‘unknown ‘ for so many years?

‘MOD Civil Servants who value their jobs’
If they valued their jobs they would have sorted out F/o Allen’s name a long time ago, and cooperated with worthwhile information offered to them nearly three years ago.

‘As such they are obligated to follow MOD policies & guidelines. And, as is commonly known, these policies frown on private enterprise seeking lost aircrew, regardless of location’.
Why??

‘not only do these key figures gain at least some form of financial advantage out of it (e.g. magazine articles, books & TV appearances)’
Do the MOD Civil Servants get paid for what they do, or do they find nobody for nothing ?

‘So perhaps things are best left as they are’
The best sentence of your post. We will carry on as before, and wherever it takes us, you can check with the relatives and ask their opinion.

I met Dougie on several occasions when I was flying in and out of Blackbush. He was OK if you were involved in aviation, and he once told me that he changed his ‘Roller’ every year, for a new one, the same colour as the last one. He changed his number plates over so that people would not know he had a new one.
You have to take your hat off, for a man who saved so many warbirds for posterity, even though they didn’t all stay in the UK.

For those who may not have been to El Alemain, I was lucky enough to go there a couple of years ago. The bus ride from Alexandria and back was 6o euros and I spent a half day photographing as much as possible.
I visited the German and Italian memorials and spent time on top of the German one just looking into the vast unending desert wasteland that is the Western desert. On the ground it is easy to tread on the rusty metal of old munitions, wheels, vehicle remails. A bit like the World War 1 battlefields in France, you wonder what lies just below the surface of the sand all around you.
It is all so quiet and peacefull there now,……….. hard to imagine the noise of screaming Stukas, explosions, tanks rattling by and men shouting orders and taking cover from the incoming artillery. It may be one battlefield that will stay as it was for some years to come, even though the shadow of development is creeping closer and closer.
I have many more of the museum artifacts if any one cares to see them

‘At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them’.

‘Come on, It’s not difficult, the family name is Fairey! ‘

Goddam!!! I knew that was wrong when I posted it……but couldn’t see !!!…then the phone rang….That’s my story and I’m sticking to it :rolleyes:

If it’s from Russia, was the paint dry ?