Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Did Tony Foulds lie about his Mi Amigo experiences? A balanced and sensitive look at the accusations flying around recently, mainly centring on how long Tony has been tending to the Mi Amigo Memorial and whether his story about whether the pilot avoided he and his friends is true, as told to BBC breakfast and Dan Walker. Presented by DeeJayOne.

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Its an incredible story - one of a man who has single-handedly been tending to a park memorial to a US Bomber plane crash for decades, ever since that troubled plane - returning from a World War 2 operation - crash-landed avoiding him and his friends playing in the park when he was just 8 years old. By now many people around the world know the story of Tony Foulds and the Mi Amigo disaster in Sheffield’s Endcliffe Park in 1944.

But that story, or at least Tony’s recollection of it, has been brought into question.

Former Sheffield Star writer Martin Dawes has written a piece on his own website entitled ‘Tony and the Mi Amigo, does it add up?’

The main points of contention appear to be how long Tony Foulds has actually been attending to the memorial, and whether Tony’s story about the circumstances of the crash are true.

BBC reports from when Dan Walker first met the pensioner in January suggest that Tony had looked after to the memorial for a significant amount of time. Many seem to think in terms of decades and watching back footage does seem to suggest that - both Dan Walker’s first tweet about meeting Foulds and subsequently one of the first BBC reports states Tony has been tending to the area - quote - “ever since” - the crash happened.

However, recently revealed footage from a YouTube video interview by Harry Gold shows Tony Foulds himself suggesting he had started visiting the memorial just two years ago. The interview was filmed in November 2018 and uploaded to YouTube in December 2018 - well before Dan Walker’s chance encounter with Tony brought the whole story to the public’s consciousness in January 2019.

Historian David Harvey, author of ‘Mi Amigo, the story of Sheffield’s Flying Fortress’ disagrees with Tony’s story too. In the book he says that claims the plane crashed avoiding children on the field is an urban legend that seemed to start in the 90s. In his research Harvey spoke to many first-hand witnesses and read numerous newspaper reports and none ever suggested it was the case that the pilot was avoiding children.

As well as eye-witness accounts, it is claimed photographic evidence, would also dispute this version of events. Harvey suggests that had the plane avoided children on the grass the nose of the crashed plane would have been facing uphill, whereas all the evidence shows if pointing in the opposite direction, downhill.

All first-hand witness accounts in fact suggest the aircraft simply ‘spiralled out of the sky’ and dropped on the crash site rather than anything resembling a controlled descent and ‘belly landing’.

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