CANADIAN BOMBER CREW HONORED
- 17 years ago
In a small village of Yvelines, France, a moving commemoration remembering the Second World war is taking place, the town’s mayor wanted to bring together families of Canadian pilots who crashed in 44 and the German aviator, still alive today, who shot the allied plane down. A kind of peace reunion between former foes. The village of Boissière School, near the Rambouillet Forest, is decorated with flags; Canadian, French, English and German the reconciliation and peace banquet.
The story begins with a Canadian bomber shot down during the Second World war and when the town’s mayor associates found some artifacts in the woods. Soon more parts of the aircraft were brought out from attics and even the seat of the Canadian pilot appeared; a moving find. They discovered then that the Lancaster bomber was shot down in the night of June 3, 1944 by a Messerschmidt 110 and spend more than one year to find the exact identity of bomber crew. Canadian families discovered with emotion that the land their ancestors helped to liberate does not want to forget them.
The village also found the German pilot, is still alive for him and he is invited. The Canadian families will be even disappointed when the German, now 82 years with a weak heart, was forced, at the last moment, to cancel the trip to Boissière École but this history of reconciliation and peace always remains.
The story begins with a Canadian bomber shot down during the Second World war and when the town’s mayor associates found some artifacts in the woods. Soon more parts of the aircraft were brought out from attics and even the seat of the Canadian pilot appeared; a moving find. They discovered then that the Lancaster bomber was shot down in the night of June 3, 1944 by a Messerschmidt 110 and spend more than one year to find the exact identity of bomber crew. Canadian families discovered with emotion that the land their ancestors helped to liberate does not want to forget them.
The village also found the German pilot, is still alive for him and he is invited. The Canadian families will be even disappointed when the German, now 82 years with a weak heart, was forced, at the last moment, to cancel the trip to Boissière École but this history of reconciliation and peace always remains.