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The pilot, Don Souter, 957
Essex Road, North Van-
couver, learned from his.
former navigator, Fred Dun-
can, of Toronto, that ar-
rangements were being made
with Councillor Bernard Mc-
Cormack, their mid-upper
. gunner, of Holyhead, for the

North Wales town.

A letter, sent by Duncan to
McCormack’s old address,
which he learned iater had
been demolished 25 years
|. @arlier, was forwarded to the

’ councillor’s office by a postal
worker who recognized his
name — the letter had been in
transit for only 10 days.

; Pilot Souter had already

_made holiday plans, but
readily changed them when
given the opportunity to get
together with his wartime
buddies.

The fourth crew member,
Cy Darn, of Manchester, was
the wireless operator. The
rear gunner was unable to at-
tend because of illness; there
was no trace of the bomb
aimer and the flight engineer
had been killed during his se-
cond tour of duty.
Accompanied by his wife,

NORTH VANCOUVER World War Il bomber
pilot Don Souter, second from right, above, flank-
ed by (left to right) Fred Duncan, navigator, Cy
Darn, wireless operator, ‘and Bernard McCor-
mack, mid-upper gunner, got together for a ‘pint’
for the first time in nearly 40 years in Holyhead,
North Wales, recently. Inset, pilot Souter, in rain-
coat, and navigator Duncan, second from left,
pose by the rear gun turret of their Lancaster Mk.
Ili — GR-V for Victor, with two ground crew,
during World War II.

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_ A VAGUELY addressed fetter, a rescheduled holi-
-, day and an astute postal worker, helped reunite
> -four World. War If bomber crew recently, for the
first time in almost 40 years.

By BRIAN ELLIS

Iris, and daughter Janice, a
flight attendant with Pacific
Western Airlines, Souter
hoisted a few ‘pints’ with his
crew at the reunion, hosted
, by the McCormacks, as they
recalled the ‘*good old days’’
when their youth often acted
as an insulation against their
fears and the grisly business
they were about.

They were the crew of a
Lancaster Mk. III bomber,
cali sign GR-V for Victor,
belonging to 61 Squadron,
No. 5 Bomber Group, RAF,
and completed a tour of 30
bombing missions over Nazi-
occupied Europe in the two
years they served together.

On the night of September
19, 1944 they were attacked
by a radar-equipped Junkers
88 while raiding Rhedyt,
Belgium, and sustained ex-
tensive damage. During the
ensuing exchange of gunfire
the enemy fighter was
damaged and driven off and
the crew claimed it as a
‘probable.’ Flying Officer
Souter managed to bring his

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