Omelet > wrote in newsmpomelet-1A2587.03112518122009
@news-wc.giganews.com:

> In article > ,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> I had an interesting package arrive in the mail today. It was not
>> totally out of the blue because the sender had contacted me by email
>> last week because he had come across some of my father's things while
>> cleaning out his late aunt's home.
>>
>> He was vaguely aware that his aunt's brother had been killed in the war
>> but she never spoke much about it until the last few months of her life
>> and she told him that there were some paper's about her brother in a
>> drawer upstairs. It turned out that the brother had been the tail
>> gunner in my father's plane. They were shot down over Denmark in April,
>> 1943. My father was the only one who got out of the plane before it
>> crashed and the rest of the crew were killed. Dad managed to escape to
>> neutral Sweden and eventually back to England and then home to Canada
>> for awhile before returning to England. He had written the family a
>> letter telling them how their son had been unable to escape from the
>> rear turret and had fired at the night fighter all the way down.
>>
>> Some of Dad's things had been sent to Jack's family in error. Among
them
>> were Dad's diary and a bunch of family photos.
>>
>>
>> This stuff had been sitting in a drawer in a spare room in this woman's
>> house for 66 years, and this fellow, after reading Dad's letter to the
>> family, was kind enough to track me down and send it to me.
>
> What a totally cool Christmas gift. :-)



*That* would be a mind blower!!

The missing history, recovered.

I hope Dave will scan some of the stuff and post it.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


If we are not meant to eat animals,
why are they made of meat?