Bismarck
70 yr old mystery solved
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Thanks for the story.
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yes indeed, interesting story.
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Thank you Raunchy.
My wife’s great uncle was on a Halifax that was shot down over France. I know his brother(her grandfather) had been to the gravesite before he died 6 years ago. It must mean so much to have the exact details of such things. -
I thought this article was related but it turns out different year but near same story. My mom’s uncle flew Lancasters in the War. The story was that he volunteered and was talked into becoming a tail gunner. Since the life span of a tail gunner at the time was about 1.5 sortes his mom went to the recruitment office and explained he was an only son which was true. He ended up becoming a pilot, survived the war and started his own civil engineering firm. He ended up becoming friend with the premier Bill Davis and had him over to his cottage all the time. I wish i had spent time with him more than once in my life. His only wife is still alive today!
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/Talker/2012/10/01/20249821.html
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I am really happy I got to hear both my grandfathers’ stories when I was younger. My grandmother also enjoyed retelling her experiences with the many pilots at Duxford.
Nonna(Italian) was younger so she would just sing Fascist songs learnt as a child.
I love history, so knowing personal facts only makes it more real.
I will tell my children and can hope nothing is lost with the passing of time. -
My Grandfather was an Air Traffic Controller during the Berlin Air Lift.
So much food and provisions were required to feed and support the city, that WHEN a plane would crash on the runway, they had bulldozers at the ready, who would bulldoze the wreckage off to the side, before rescue efforts would even begin.
Malachi…
Did your Mom’s uncle ever pilot a plane that lost the tail-gunner? That would be a freaky thought…
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Hey Garg. Man I wish I could ask him. I spent one weekend with him at his cottage the week after the at the time Premier Bill Davis was there. A few years later he found out he had aggressive cancer. Being a man’s man he didn’t want anybody to see him in his weak and dying state and died with only his wife at his side a few weeks later. I’ll ask my mom tho, we were just talking about them as her 90th b-day was last week and mom went.
Man that Berlin Air Lift was one hell of a heroic effort. A pivotal moment in the cold war in my opinion.
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