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"We're almost at the halfway point," Bill Zuk, executive director of the Manitoba Aviation Council, said Wednesday. "That made us confident enough to go ahead and contact a sculptor -- although I haven't given him a cheque yet."
[Andrew Mynarski] was 27 when his Lancaster bomber was shot and crashed during a night mission over France in June 1944. While his six crew members parachuted out of the blazing plane as it plummeted to the ground, Mynarski spent precious moments trying to extricate fellow crewman Pat Brophy, who was trapped in the rear turret. Realizing his efforts were futile, he turned to the open hatch door to bail out. But before he jumped, and with his parachute on fire, Mynarski turned and saluted Brophy. Mynarski died of his burns but, miraculously, Brophy was thrown from the wreckage after the plane hit the ground and survived.Plan A was to have the foundry in Scotland recast the statue so Winnipeggers could "bring Andrew home," Zuk said.See the full content of this document
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Hometown-Hero Tribute Closer
Plan for local statue of WWII's Mynarski inches toward reality
Local Second World War hero Andrew Mynarski has already been immortalized in bronze in England and in Ottawa.But three years and...See the full content of this document
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