PHOTOS
Book Launch
Amazing Airmen was launched on Oct. 25, 2009, at The Record newspaper in Kitchener, Ontario. Seven war veterans, whose stories were in the book, were on hand to help launch the book. About 250 guests, from as far away as Sioux Falls, South Dakota, came to the launch.
Read about it in The Record.
Guests at the book launch.
War veterans sign their chapters.
Ian speaks to the crowd.
Celebration of Reconciliation
Manfred Kramer was a nine-year-old boy living in Krefeld, Germany,
when Tom Lane and his crew bombed the city in 1943. Long after the
war, Kremer emigrated to Canada and became a professor at the University
of Guelph, where Tom also taught. Manfred contacted Ian after reading a story Ian wrote about Tom's bombing raid. Tom and Manfred
had a chance to shake hands at the Guelph reception for Amazing Airmen on
May 16, 2010.
Read about Manfred's and Tom's
experience in
The Record.
Manfred Kramer (left), Ian (centre) and Tom Lane (right).
North Bay Reception
Harry Denison receives at a reception in North Bay, Ontario, a box
containing parts of the fuselage of his bomber, NP799. Harry descended to
Earth in the fuselage after the bomber lost its nose, tail and wings. With
Harry are Ian Darling, author of Amazing Airmen, and Jean Jamieson,
Harry's daughter. Two German researchers, Rene Siegert and Tobias Raband,
sent the parts. In his speech, Ian spoke about the reconciliation that
occurred between Germany and the Allies after the war.
Ian (standing) and Harry Denison (seated).
Harry Denison died on Dec. 5, 2010. For a video of a tribute to Harry Denison click on this link.