Each year, TECT collaborates with ASAVN in the
identification and location of Typhoon fatal crash sites in
Normandy. This work involves research in books and other
publications, with the RAF Historical branch and with the
families and former colleagues of the pilots. ASAVN
make contact with the Mayors of the Communes where
the aircraft crashed and select two or three sites for
the erection and dedication of memorial plaques.
Dates are then fixed for the dedication ceremonies and
veterans, families and friends travel to Normandy for a
weekend of remembrance. Participants come from Europe,
Canada and even further afield and are joined by a party
representing the present-day RAF Typhoon Squadrons.
On the Sunday there is a commemorative service in the
church at Noyers Bocage, site of the Typhoon Memorial,
followed by a parade and ceremony at the Memorial itself.
A wall-plaque inside the church commemorates all of the
666 Typhoon personnel, pilots and ground-crew, who died
during WW2
Remembering the fallen
