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Featuring 3 bombers as well as training aircraft, displays, aviation art, videos, and archives, the museum honours those who served with Bomber Command.
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The May 7, 2017 Bulletin is now available at Bomber Command Museum of Canada Website.
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WE’VE RECENTLY UPGRADED OUR MUSEUM SHOP Stop by next time you’re at the museum or visit our On-Line Store: http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/store/
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Remembering "Operation Manna" today by sharing one our museum's finest commissioned paintings depicting former museum director Joe English en-route to being one of the first to drop food to the starving Dutch. http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/s,95_1manna.html
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The 2017 Spring Newsletter is now available at Bomber Command Museum of Canada Website.
April 22, 2017 EVENT
FAMILY OF FOUR DAMBUSTER AIRMEN TO GATHER AT THE BOMBER COMMAND MUSEUM FOR A SPECIAL PRESENTATION On Saturday, April 22nd at 11:00 am, as part of the museum’s commemoration of the First Operational Flight of the Lancaster Bomber, a special presentation was made prior to a start-up of the museum’s Lancaster Bomber. Shere Lowe, daughter of John Fraser who was shot down over the Mohne Dam and became a Prisoner of War, presented a very special photo album to Jim Heather. Jim is the nephew of Ken Earnshaw who was the navigator on the same aircraft as Fraser. Earnshaw was killed when the Lancaster crashed. The photo album, together with Fraser’s logbook and other Dambuster-related documents, had been stolen from the families in the 1990’s. Also attending was Joe McCarthy jr, son of Squadron Leader Joe McCarthy, a pilot who attacked the Eder Dam and Rob Taerum, the nephew of Harlo Taerum, navigator of the lead aircraft on the raid that was flown by Wing Commander Guy Gibson. For background information on the Dambusters: http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/damsraid.html
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Aerobatics pilot Patrick Rebbetoy from ON contributes to the Building Expansion Fund, in memory of his uncle.
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The lucky volunteer winners to sit in the Lancaster during the engine run at 2 p.m. on Saturday are: names generated from submissions: BRETT COLBOURNE of Brett's Recycling - (has been a volunteer since 2008 with the Town of Nanton & Meals on Wheels) - and from the museum volunteer list: BEV NELSON, a museum volunteer since 2004 - (also volunteers with Nanton Legion #80, Stavely Royal Purple, Kozy Korner & Meals on Wheels). We are happy to highlight the community's volunteers during this engine run off and Kick Off National Volunteer Week in Nanton (April 23 - 29) !!
Dambuster's stolen wartime photo album to be returned to airman's family
This Saturday, April 22, at 11 a.m., witness the lost photo album being returned to its rightful family ... http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/dambusters-stolen-wartime-photo-album-to-be-returned-to-airmans-family
Support the Recovery of a RCAF Halifax Bomber
Help Us Save RCAF Halifax HR871 from the Baltic Sea of Sweden https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/417498 Halifax Sweden Project – UPDATE 2 - April 15, 2017 Greetings this Easter weekend to all our supporters and followers of our Halifax bomber recovery project as we save RCAF Halifax HR871 from Swedish waters. Some quick updates on our Sweden underwater recovery plans and news from across Canada and beyond. I will be travelling to Sweden and the UK within the next 2 weeks as we must have a meeting of all the Swedish Coast and Sea Center (SCSC) divers who will be working on the recovery of HR871 this summer. As we continue the salvage of HR871 and all the other activities that are world-wide in scope to build up a Halifax for the Bomber Command Museum of Canada (BCMC). we have had a great opportunity just within the last 2 weeks to say thank you for one of our bomber boys, Henry “HANK” Jackson DFC, who flew in support of D-Day, so qualified for the Legion of Honour of France, and was awarded this prestigious medal just 2 weeks ago! This poignant thank you and ceremony was covered by both the CBC and the CTV media and I wanted to share the exciting moments of honouring Hank Jackson, the last of a generation. It is THE reason we at Halifax 57 Rescue do what we do and go to the ends of the earth to save Halifaxes for the aircrew who flew them for our Freedom. So listen in as the CBC “Eyeopener” radio program caught wind of this Legion of Honour award to Hank, just click on the LINK below and then click on LISTEN : http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/programs/eyeopener/legion-of-honour Of course, Halifax 57 Rescue has been busy trying to tell the world about the Halifax Sweden Project as this is so important to our overall plans to save Halifaxes and bring a Halibag home to our headquarters in Nanton, Alberta at the BCMC. Thanks to Ross Magnaldo in Toronto we were allowed to publish in the Royal Canadian Military Institute an article of the Halifax Sweden Project in their SITREP quarterly report and here it is online, on page 14-15. A great article on Vimy Ridge too. Just click on the LINK below: http://www.rcmi.org/getmedia/c39dc323-f067-4b81-a199-11def9b65b3f/March_-_April_Sitrep.aspx So then you might say, when will the rebuild of a Halifax start once we have recovered all the Halifax parts you need to build up an example for BCMC? Well folks, for those of you who do not know us yet, we have already started the rebuild of the foundation, the core, the center- section of this historic heavy bomber right here in Ottawa, Canada at Knox Tech just south of the Ottawa airport. See the latest major news last week at Knox Tech as the new-build REAR spars for a Halifax bomber, built from Halifax blueprints by our corporate sponsors Sprung Instant Structures at their Oregon USA factory, arrived at the shop so we can continue to build up the Halifax center-section (29 feet X 12 feet!). Please watch our brand new video (this week) done by H57RC Director Jim Blondeau at his studios and see the Halifax rear spars arriving at Knox Tech. Click on the LINK below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0yxt4Lmea0 See also the photos of the rear spars as they arrived by truck in Ottawa and were delivered safe and sound from Oregon to Alberta to our Ontario shop. (Built and delivered - Cost $5,900. - for 2 sets of rear spars for 2 Halifax bombers). This rear spar funding came from 2 benefactors who agreed we needed the rear spars NOW. The other set of spars we are saving for the future rebuild of other Halifaxes. Do not worry, someday some other crazy and astute people will want to rebuild a Halifax, and THEN, who ya gonna call! You can see as your Project Manager that I have a lot to organize and weighing the importance of acquiring missing pieces in addition to our wonderful Halifax Project in Sweden. I do not want and should not stop the rebuild work at the REBUILDSHOP of Knox Tech (you can see this work on FACEBOOK – just put it one word REBUILDSHOP on a Facebook search and look for the Halifax image). Nor do we want to be handcuffed by lack of funds for the recovery operations in Sweden. After the REAR SPAR acquisition we have about $9,000 to keep going and continue the recovery of HR871 after monthly operations costs of Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada) are factored in to our financial picture. So I do know the donations from all you stalwarts and supporters has slowed down since all the media coverage from last year. So I hope all of you will renew this year and I hope there are some tax refunds coming out to you that could be directed our way. If you will look closely at the Fundrazr site you will see we have only raised 47% of our goal and this is a bare bones budget that requires all of our goal to be reached to be assured of the Halifax HR871 recovery from Sweden. I cannot urge you strongly enough to continue to share and spread the good news of our Halifax Sweden Project on social media and the internet world as this will reach the right people and we will gain the critical support we need to complete our mission. You can see that we are diligently trying all avenues of building up support and continuing our Halifax recovery operations. There is no moss growing on our south ends as we move forward (north) on this exciting project to save our Halifax. Remember, I have been able to contact two federal Ministries about grant proposals to save our Halifax, Ministry of Canadian Heritage and Veterans Affairs, and I submitted on your behalf the best 15 page proposal I could, to ask for funding support to save our Air Force history. I have political friends in high places trying to convince these Ministries this is no ordinary project, the Halifax Sweden Project. I have not heard from these Ministries yet but at least they have not said NO, and this means they are thinking about it. Do not ask me the logic behind who gets support and who does not, but I am well aware that we must not let up the pressure on finding a grant for saving our history. The only other precedent for government funding approval for a Halifax bomber recovery was when yours truly was Project Manager for the successful recoveries of RAF Halifax NA337 in 1995 and RCAF Halifax LW682 in 1997. I hope this government remembers this as they were reminded in my proposal of ourproven track record. Hope springs eternal, and I will report to you as soon as I hear from these Ministries. While this is on-going, I must underline the importance that WE, the people, must not put all our eggs in one basket and hope that federal funding will show up in time. We need to control our own destiny and save our own history as it is not governments that gave us our FREEDOM. It is the young volunteers who decided to serve and fight for us that gave us this. So let us take the situation in hand and continue to support saving our Halifax heritage and history for those young volunteers like Hank Jackson and his Murphy crew of 428 Squadron. Let me review the ways you can donate and support the Halifax Project, while getting great gifts and mementos of your contributions: 1) Donate direct via this Fundrazr site https://fundrazr.com/campaigns/417498 2) Donate via our Halifax 57 Rescue website at http://www.57rescuecanada.com/ Just locate the golden DONATE button and donate using PAYPAL with your credit card 3) Send us your support via Canada Post mail to either one of the 2 addresses listed below 4) Halifax 57 Rescue also has a RBC Discount Brokerage account and we can accept donations of stocks, bonds, and securities with a full face-value tax deduction for you on this donation. See our 2 addresses below for further information on this feature. In closing let me show WHY we do what we do and that we deserve your support, not because this is a great historical project but because we are remembering the sacrifice of so many aircrew. THEY deserve to be remembered in the form of this aluminium sword called a Halifax. Just click on the Link from great CTV news feature: http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1091314&binId=1.1201914&playlistPageNum=1 Near the end of this video you will see Minister of Veterans Affairs Kent Hehr congratulating Hank Jackson as he also attended this great ceremony. Do NOT think for one minute I let the Minister get out of the building without Mr. Hehr knowing there was an important 15 page proposal on his desk that required his attention to save a Halifax for Hank and the Murphy crew! Pressing On Regardless, remembering — WE LEAVE NO HALIFAX BEHIND. Best regards, Karl Kjarsgaard – Director email: 57rescuecanada@rogers.com Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada) or Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada) 2704 Dunrobin Road P.O. Box 606 DUNROBIN, ON Nanton, AB K0A 1T0 T0L 1R0
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LANCASTER'S FIRST OP COMMEMORATION AND SPECIAL DAMBUSTERS PRESENTATION At 11:00 on Saturday, the 22nd, a once stolen and long-lost, Dambuster's photo album will be returned to his family. We'll be running the Lancaster immediately afterwards. Details: http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/photos_temp/event_presentation_2017-04-22.pdf
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The 75th Anniversary of the formation of 6 Group, the RCAF's "All Canadian" Bomber Group, is the focus of our museum's August event. Planning is well underway."Save the Date."
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