This week Bill updates a story about a mid-air crash over Northern Ontario at the height of the cold war
A fighter jet collided with a long-range bomber north of Hearst during a training mission.
The two bomber pilots ejected and were found the next day. Two navigators from the bomber died but the fighter jet pilot was never found. The six-day search for Pilot 1st Lt. Gaylord Treu was called off just before Christmas.It was May 22, 2020, when we ventured down the Kabinakagami River, NW of Hearst. The chartered voyageur canoe with a motor included Danny Gratton and daughter Mylène Coulombe-Gratton, from Hearst, Brian Emblin from Timmins and Back Roads Bill.
It was more than a breath, but I could feel the warmth pass by my ears. I felt the rush of air encompass me almost like when in the bathroom shower and you first feel the water, a little shock. Distinctive and mesmerizing it was there and gone in what seemed like a few moments of time. Ordinarily I would keep this to myself; I would not reveal that I have been affected although I couldn't say why that is.
The initial “M” and the wife’s name became the focus for ancestry search engines. Post crash, Gaylord was never found. A memorial stands over an empty grave next to the grave of the love of his life.Months went by. They were punctuated by dead-end phone calls and data bases drying up.Up came a profile, the head and shoulder shot of Denny Treu. He is unmistakably his father's son and his image strongly resembles the one of his father sitting in his fighter jet.
“Our air and the ground search , turned up some surprising evidence of the event,” said Colonel Strayer. “I had seen Gay don his orange flight suit a time or two and one thing he always did was tie his orange handled jack knife, with its special blade for cutting tangled parachute shroud lines, around his waist using parachute cord under his flight suit. The fighter jet cockpit was never found.
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