Tin Shed Experience launches anniversary appeal
A small, volunteer run museum in Laugharne is launching an appeal to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the arrival of a very special group of American soldiers to Wales in 1943. Tin Shed Experience 1940s museum is appealing for information on the 28th Infantry Division known as the ‘Keystones.’ Seimon Pugh-Jones of the Tin Shed has been interested in this particular division for quite some time, he even produced a self-funded documentary on the Americans in Wales during WWII entitled ‘Operation Bolero.’ He says, "I have always taken an interest in the 28th It is the oldest division in the armed forces of the United States but the most interesting thing to me about these troops is that they hail from Pennsylvania and of course that area of America has a large Welsh community that dates back to the late 17th century where a large emigration of Welsh Quakers occurred and then later in the 19th century where Welsh coal miners emigrated to the anthracite and bituminous mines. "...