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The only operational Second World War-era Lancaster bomber plane of Canada was welcomed back by hundreds of admires and a Scottish marching band after it returned from a historic aerial tour in the U.K. to Hamilton on Sunday. The 69-year-old Lancaster landed at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum on Sunday after it flew across the Atlantic to England in early August.
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum CEO, David Rohrer, explained that “I just want to tell you that this trip has meant a great deal to all of us who have been on it, but more than that, it’s meant a great deal to all of us and all of Canada.” Rohrer recalled that Canada’s first Lancaster bomber plane flew to the U.K. for the first time in August 1943 and “it was very special in Canada because we have values and beliefs in this country that we hold dear and we defend them, we’ve defended them in the past and we may have to defend them in the future and that act of commitment, service, duty and valour is something required and we should never forget.”
Rohrer stated that “the Lancaster was a significant warplane, but I also admired what it did after World War II,” since “it dropped 6,600 tonnes of food, it flew on 3,600 missions. It flew 2,900 round trips across the Atlantic in 24 days and repatriated 74,000 POWs at the end of the war. The work this plane did and this airplane will go down in history forever.”
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