Sir – The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust is about to build a new military heritage museum in the grounds of the Oxfordshire Museum at Woodstock.

The purpose is to promote understanding of the effects of war and conflict on the people of Oxfordshire through the ages.

If all goes well it will open in October 2013. While our timeline for the new museum will go back to the Romans, a major part of the long story that we plan to tell concerns the more recent conflicts of the Great War and the Second World War and how the people of Oxfordshire played their part in these great national efforts.

The Second World War in particular was the start of a long sojourn of many American service personnel in the county — there were USAF air stations at Mount Farm, Grove, Brize Norton and of course Upper Heyford, this last only vacated at the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. We want to connect and establish links both here and in the US with those who might have served or lived in the county.

We would like to get in touch with Americans or their families who remember living or serving here during the war or afterwards, or who may have memorabilia which we can exhibit in due course.

We are also looking for volunteers to gather information and record the US/Oxfordshire military experience.

Please contact: Ursula Corcoran, museum director, on: 01993 813832 or via the website www.sofo.org.uk

David Innes, Trustee, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum