ⓘWhat do the D1–D5 confidence tiers mean?›
- D1A single attributed public source (museum, council, Historic England, CWGC, mapping data).
- D2Two or more independent public sources corroborate the same facts.
- D3A named coordinator or local reviewer has confirmed the public-source account.
- D4A named observer has personally visited and documented the site — photographs, inscriptions, condition.
- D5An archive or institution has provided written documentation supporting the entry.
A higher tier means more corroborating evidence, not automatic historical certainty. The Discovery layer does not replace archival verification.
The American Air Museum at IWM Duxford in Cambridgeshire stands as a memorial to the 30,000 men of the United States Army Air Forces who died flying from British bases in the Second World War. Its "Counting the Cost" memorial — 52 glass panels engraved with the silhouettes of more than 7,000 lost American aircraft — records that sacrifice alongside the largest collection of American military aircraft on display outside the United States.
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What this page does not claim
- This commemorates the United States Army Air Forces who flew from Britain (the American air war), not Soviet forces or the Arctic convoys.
- Names of individuals are not reproduced in this discovery record.
- Endorsement by any named institution; the source is cited for documentary research only.
Sources
- AImperial War Museums — IWM War Memorials Register record for the American Air Museum, IWM Duxford (memorial to 30,000 US Army Air Forces dead).
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