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The Nanton Lancaster Society Newsletter THE NANTON LANCASTER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER BOMBER Command MUSEUM of Canada VOLUME 24 ISSUE 2 FALL/WINTER 2010 Page 5 Page 4 Page 8 Page 13 Page 18 Page 19 2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT‘S REPORT Rob Pedersen ………………….. Charlie Cobb Rob Pedersen Greg Morrison ………………… Brian Taylor As I sit down to write this note, with Brent Armstrong ……………. Barry Beresford Remembrance Day just around the corner, I Dan Fox ……….……………... Tink Robinson am once again reminded of just how big a Bob Evans ……... …………... Karl Kjarsgaard sacrifice was made so that we may live in a ……………….. John Phillips ……………... ————–—Volunteer positions———–—- country free of oppression. It is with a Honourary President ……. …….. Don Hudson particular fondness and sadness that I President …………………. ……. Rob Pedersen remember those individuals who left their Vice-President …………. ……. Greg Morrison homeland but did not return. Secretary …………………. ……. Charlie Cobb Continuing to tell the story of those who Treasurer ………………………. Brian Taylor served in Bomber Command kept the Curator - Editor ……………………. Bob Evans volunteers at your museum very busy this Anson Restoration …….………. Rob Pedersen past five months. With multiple events held Gift Shop coordinator…………. Ev Murakami each month it was a very busy summer Library & Displays …………….. Dave Birrell indeed. From monthly engine runs to Webmaster …………………. Brent Armstrong special events, from traveling displays to —-——————— STAFF————————— Office Manager ……………………. Julie Taylor hosting movie crews, at the museum, there Visitor Services Manager…………..Bev Nelson was never a lack of things to see or do. Next year promises to be just as busy as NEWSLETTER CONTENTS this year. Five engine run dates have been set and will be posted on our website Executive list - President’s Report ………. ……. 2 Membership options - Museum hours ………….. 3 shortly. Museum has a new name ………………………… 4 Event planning has begun with our Planes, Trains, Elevators and Model contest ….…. 5 ―major‖ summer event theme this year to Pioneer Auto Club visits the Museum ………….... 6 be the Society’s 25 anniversary. Honouring a Fallen Airman - Nanton and the UK .. 7 Yes that’s right, for twenty five years the The first Joe English Memorial Fly-in ………….... 8 Jets over Cayley - a three day event …………..… 9 Nanton Lancaster Society has been helping August long weekend. Parade ………………….. 10 to spread the word about Bomber Command Simulators for the museum update ……………. 11 and the part it played in shortening the war. Alberta Aviation Museum BCATP tour ………... 12 Also, honouring the young men who Special donor—2010 Scrounger award………….. 13 served and in many cases gave their lives to Salute to the BCATP Instructors ………….. 14 & 15 In Memoriam -Lancaster V-RA flies over Nanton 16 ensure the freedom we enjoy today, is a Lancaster Crew Report - Download newsletter .…17 major part of what we do. FM159 Fifty years in Nanton -BCMOC and Calgary Make sure you come join us for what Mosquito Society -Maurice Galli … …. 18 & 19 promises to be another spectacular year. 57 Rescue Progress Report #36………... ……….. 20 <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Cleaning at Evans Ranch - CAMA Agreement... 21 Anson restoration news - Tiger Moth wings …... 22 N.A. Yale update - Curator’s Report ..………….. 23 ADVERTISERS ………………………………… 24 3 MUSEUM HOURS BECOME A MEMBER OF THE April 16 to October 15 - Open Daily NANTON LANCASTER SOCIETY 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ————————————————— Oct. 16 - April 15 - Open weekends only - ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP - $20 - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ————————————————— To book group or special visits SQUARE FOOTER MEMBERSHIP For a donation of $100 or more you become a Call 1-(403)-646-2270 SQUARE FOOTER member and receive: CONTACT INFORMATION - A certificate stating you are a Square Footer member; bi-annual newsletter Office Manager: - Your name placed on a permanent plaque [email protected] in the museum; Visitor Services: - An official tax receipt for income tax [email protected] purposes; - and a three-year membership. ————————————————– Curator: [email protected] LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP For a donation of $500 or more, you become a Telephone: (403) 646-2270 LIFETIME MEMBER and receive: Fax No. (403) 646-2214 - A Lifetime member certificate; - your name on a permanent plaque in the museum; Website: - an official tax receipt for income tax <www.bombercommandmuseum.ca> purposes. - Bi-annual newsletter. Mailing Address: ————————————————– The Nanton Lancaster Society WING COMMANDERS CLUB P.O. Box 1051 For a donation of $5000 or more you become Nanton, Alberta a member of the WING COMMANDERS Canada T0L 1R0 CLUB and receive: - all the rights of a Lifetime member; PLUS your name on a special permanent plaque on the ―EXCLUSIVE‖ Wing Commanders board. The Nanton Lancaster Society is a non-profit, volunteer society, registered with Revenue Canada as a charitable organization and is pleased to issue tax receipts for donations of funding or materials. The Society is working toward restoration of Nanton's Lancaster Bomber and development of the Air Museum with this historic aircraft as the Visitors view the Tutor during one of the centerpiece. The museum honours all those summer events. Volunteer, Maurice Galli, associated with Bomber Command and commemorates the activities of the British spent one winter applying SnowBird colours Commonwealth Air Training Plan. to it. For more about Maurice, see page 19. 4 posted to an Operational Training Unit, he was told, "We're short of gunners. You're going right to a squadron." After serving with No. 51 Squadron, Bill's crew was selected to join the elite No. 617 Squadron, immediately following the Dambusters Raid. The squadron continued to fly "special operations" and Bill flew twenty-seven of them including low-level Museum president Rob Pedersen holds the (50') dropping of supplies to the French ribbon while Bill Hume gets ready to cut it Underground, a D-Day "spoof" where the officially recognizing the name change. squadron created radar images that appeared THE MUSEUM HAS A NEW NAME to be an invasion force, low level raids with During a ceremony on the "Sixty-fifth 12,000 pound high explosives, and Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day," numerous tallboy raids against railway May 8, 2010, the museum's name was tunnels, submarine pens, V-1 and V-2 sites. changed to the Bomber Command Bill completed forty-nine operations and Museum of Canada. was then told he'd done enough. He tried to A ribbon was cut below the new signage convince his C/O, Leonard Cheshire, to let on the hangar to symbolize this significant him do one more to reach an even fifty. point in the museum's development. Cheshire replied, "Believe me, that could be The ribbon was cut by Bomber the one, so there's the door." Command veteran, Bill Hume DFM, of Bill completed his air force career in south Claresholm, Alberta. east Asia flying supplies from Hong Kong Born in Scotland, Bill trained as an air- in Dakotas as an air quartermaster. gunner for six weeks. Rather than being <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> 5 John Phillips photo Lanc and Blenheim out in the May 29 snow. PLANES, TRAINS & ELEVATORS Sean McCarthy photo The morning of May 29, 2010, the day scheduled for this event, saw everything A view of some of the tables of exhibited covered in wet snow! models along with participants and visitors. The photos above show the Lancaster and Blenheim aircraft with a coating of the white stuff. These two aircraft had been moved out of the museum in order to make room for Rocky Mountain Model Club to set up tables for the Western Canadian Regional Model contest the following day. From an e-mail from Scott McTavish: Despite the weather, model builders from all over western Canada attended and entered over 450 models into the Brent Armstrong photo contest. Gold, Silver and Bronze were awarded to the top models in many categories, and more than 60 Special Awards were handed out to the very best models. Plans are already underway for the 2011 show. The Rocky Mountain Model Club thanks the staff and members of the Bomber Command Museum for providing such a wonderful venue. We have been able to attract an assortment of real vehicles, a Brent Armstrong photo wider audience for our hobby, and little did we know that mother nature wanted to Two of the hundreds of models that were participate with force this year. exhibited at the May 29, Western Canadian <><><><><><><><><><><><> Regional Model Show held in the museum. 6 Garl Orde photo Garl Orde photo Photos of some of the cars on display. Garl Orde photo PIONEER AUTO CLUB VISIT The Alberta Pioneer Auto Club held its International Antique Auto Rally at the Running the two starboard Merlins for the Bomber Command Museum on July 2, Auto Club visitors and as a tribute to the 2010, with an estimated 60+ cars attending. memory of a WWII bomber crew who As the cars arrived they each stopped to perished while serving. (See next page.) have photos taken in front of the Lancaster A SALUTE TO THE BCATP IN 2011 bomber. The Lanc had been towed from the Vintage Wings at Gatineau, Quebec, is museum hangar in readiness for its two heading up a nation wide, ―Yellow Wings,‖ overhauled Merlin engines to be run-up salute to the BCATP by visiting former later in the day. bases flying former WWII training aircraft. At noon a catered luncheon was enjoyed Their Tiger Moth, Fleet Finch, Fairchild by the auto club members in the museum Cornell, and Harvard, will start this off in after which the museum’s engine crew fired June, 2011. Their schedule includes a visit up the Lanc’s two starboard Merlins. A on 9 & 10 July to West Jet Family Day/ large crowd of the visitors and locals were Calgary Stampede and Nanton/Vulcan on hand to view the running. For more info check these websites: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> www.vintagewings.ca www.bombercommandmuseum.ca 7 Garl Orde photo Museum curator Bob Evans lays a wreath The Staunton on the Vale Memorial which at the Memorial Wall near the name of was rededicated July 3, 2010, the day after W/O2, Thomas Herbert Warne, RCAF, who the wreath was laid at BCMC Memorial was KIA February 1943, with all his crew.
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