wrote on November 14, 2010
Please help me locate the flight log book, squadron picture and medals of my father, Robert Henry Larson (408 Goose Squadron).They were \'lost\' at a reunion. The reunion to which he sent these items may have been the 60th anniversary in 2001 (or it may have been a bit earlier than that). I know that Dad, having suffered a severe stroke, was too ill by 2001 to attend personally, so he sent his things with his friend, Doug Boynton. When they didn\'t come back with Doug, Dad tried to locate them, but as near as he could tell, they may have been put in a museum. Unfortunately, my mom doesn\'t recall where the reunion was held other than that it was on the \'prairies\' somewhere. After he died in 2003, various members of our family have taken up the cause of trying to locate his war time artifacts. I would be happy to pay for replicas for any museum that is interested in having copies of these items, but the originals really do belong to our family history. Dad was stationed at Linton on Ouse: he flew 3 missions as a rear tail gunner in the Lancaster bombers and was home on furlough waiting to be recalled to go to the Pacific theatre when the armistice was signed. He told me that he was up on the roof, painting his parents\' house in Langley BC., when he heard the news of the end of the war. Apparently he leapt up, spilling the paint in his excitement. Grandma never allowed that streak of paint to be removed. Until the house was torn down, the streak on the roof remained a symbol of the blessing of the end of WW11. Thank-you for any help you can offer in this matter, Linda MacGregor