David Clemens could not think of a better way to send his late father off than in a Lancaster aircraft at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada.
The former mechanic worked on several aircrafts during the Second World War.Bill was a mechanic at RCAF Claresholm before going overseas to work on the Halifaxes and Lancasters of RCAF 427, 429, 435, 436, and 437 Squadrons.
“Young guys doing their best, out in the open, no hangars, fixing bombers so they could go every night, so that we could have freedom and victory,” said Karl Kjarsgaard, director of the Halifax project at the museum. On Sunday, Clemens brought his dad’s ashes inside the cockpit of the Lancaster at the museum for one last ride.“We were down in Claresholm yesterday at the BCATP, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan Airport, where he had done some of his training and then today we brought him here to take him up in the Lancaster for the final engine run.”An engine run in front of a couple hundred people was the perfect gift on Father’s Day.
“When the war was over, the Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons they tabulated which squadrons, British, Australian and Canadian had the highest serviceability rate in all of Bomber Command,” he said.It also signified a day for Kjarsgaard to remember the veterans who are no longer here.“But the thing is, we treasure their memories, and we're all free because of them.”
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