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).