Capsule buried in crew's memory at Deenethorpe airfield

[Warden]

The widow of an American air crewman who took part in WWII bombing raids from a UK airfield has buried a time capsule on the crew's behalf.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-13782139

 

[Warden]

Another more modern time capsule story

Workmen demolishing the old town hall in the centre of Keynsham have found a time capsule in its foundations.

Read BBC news report here

 

[Edward]

Always really interesting to read of these things being dug up. As the twentieth anniverary of our graduation looms ahead, I wish I had gone ahead with friends and buried the time capsule we talked about back in the nineties. Even at this relatively short distance in time it would be facinating as an insight to how we really were, as opposed to the tricks of memory that the mind plays on us over time.

The widow of an American air crewman who took part in WWII bombing raids from a UK airfield has buried a time capsule on the crew's behalf.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-13782139

Several of the guys in that photo are wearing caps with a similar piping pattern to what I wore in the Cubs... obviously that's not what they are, but were they issued uniform?

 

[Otter]

Probably squadron caps, less common in USAAF than in USN, but still plenty around. Long thread on this over on VLJ if you are interested.

Edit: BTW some aircraft crews also had custom caps made up, could be those.

 

[Edward]

Probably squadron caps, less common in USAAF than in USN, but still plenty around. Long thread on this over on VLJ if you are interested.

Edit: BTW some aircraft crews also had custom caps made up, could be those.

Thanks - Ah! Yes... I've seen some of those before. Doesn't one of our members make / paint replicas? They remind me of brightly coloured jockey's caps, some of them. Which makes sense - for the same reason that the jockeys wore them for ease of identification from a distance, I imagine that would be very useful on a busy airfield.

 

[Otter]

Could be but brobably more a group identity / bonding thing.