Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada)
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FLYING TO GLORY Prairie boys take flight in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II
When the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan began in the earliest years of WW II, four thousand people were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Just five years later, that number had risen to 250,000. FLYING TO GLORY is a dramatic portrayal of how that astonishing transformation occurred. Young men, many of them just teenagers, left their homes on the farms and in the small towns and cities of the prairies to learn how to fly -- and how to fire weapons, shoot down aircraft and bomb military targets. Those who made it through the training were posted overseas, to serve on Ops in the R.A.F. Bomber Command. |
| Lives were changed forever, and far too many were ended. The friendships, the dreams, the loneliness, the fears and hopes and sorrows of a group of prairie boys are vividly brought to life in Sandra Dempsey's deeply moving drama. This book is not just a great play, it's also terrific to read. |
As a living legacy,the playwright desires that a percentage of
gross box office revenues from productions of FLYING TO GLORY will be donated
to the Royal Canadian Air Force Benevolent Fund, or similar air veteran's
organization, or to the
57rescuecanada.com LW170 Halifax recovery and restoration project.
Link to Sandra Dempsey's web site to order this gripping play today ($23.00 Cdn).
