The Museum :: Signing Days
Amongst the Museum's most popular events are our Signing Days. Here visitors have the opportunity to meet distinguished World War II pilots and to get their autographs.
All proceeds from these events go towards specially selected projects, currently our Local RAF Memorials Project.
Our next Signing Day will be held on Sunday 11th April 2010. Confirmed attendees are Tom Neil, Bill Green, Nigel Rose, Rodney Scrase, Peter Brown, Jimmy Corbin, Richard Jones, Paul Farnes, Peter Ayerst, Tony Pickering and Heinz Radlauer.
The Museum will also be pleased to welcome ex-Luftwaffe Junkers Ju88 veteran Stabsfeldwebel Erich Schmidt to the Signing Day. He served as an Air Engineer and Flight Instructor with Kampfgeschwader 1 'Hindenburg' on the Eastern Front and later in the war with Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 on night-fighter duties, including 'Wilde Sau' operations. Captured by US forces during a retreat through Belgium in December 1944, he was taken across The Atlantic by the Americans keen to learn from his engineering expertise. Released postwar, Erich settled in England.
We hope to add more names over the next few weeks, along with full details of the event, so please keep checking back.