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Captain Perrin Memorial Unveiling

Around 200 VIP guests and members of the public visited a Midlands distribution park recently, to honour a young wartime pilot, whose bravery saved the lives of countless residents more than six decades earlier.

ProLogis Developments sponsored and organised a memorial stone and unveiling ceremony, to commemorate the sacrifice of US flying ace Captain John Perrin, who steered his stricken aircraft away from homes and schools, on Independence Day, July 4th 1944. His plane developed problems flying over Stafford but, instead of baling out when he could, he remained at the controls long enough to avoid hitting the town, and the nearby village of Creswell, before crashing into a wheat field and exploding.

Reach designed and printed a special, limited, edition of a commemorative book for ProLogis written by a former local man, who witnessed the plane coming down in 1944, and there was a stunning fly-past and aerial display by a Mustang fighter plane, similar to the one Captain Perrin was flying at the time.  Reach also created a commerative wooden box to hold both a copy of the book and an American flag to be presented to the family of Captain Perrin.

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