Martin Becker vs Lancaster PG-S LL904, 27 April 1944

[Kenny Horne]

Hey guys,

Just reporting in. We have had the most powerful weekend. My family and I are lucky enough to live a short four hours drive from the Bomber Command Museum of Canada, and to commemorate 90 years of the RCAF they pulled their Lancaster onto the tarmac last night and started all four Merlins in a cold dark night. See link for a great photo:
http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/ph...2014rcaf1a.pdf

Through a long story/twist of fate, my son Jimmy and I were allowed up into the cockpit today. My Uncle Jimmy's fatal flight to Schweinfurt was literally 70 years ago to the second while there was my own son Jimmy standing at the navigator's station inside this Lancaster. As I say, a very powerful moment.

I want to thank everyone who has helped me on my biography of my Uncle, some directly, and many more indirectly though this site. What was to be a short few pages has turned into about 12000 words, with a few thousand more to go. Of course if I was truly a writer, I could then edit it down to the small document I first envisioned, but of course that's another story...

Take care,

Kenny Horne,
Nanton, Canada