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Bomber Command Museum of Canada
August 2019 Event
* S/L Ian Bazalgette's VC Flight *
75th Anniversary Commemoration











2019 was the seventy-fifth anniversary of S/L Ian Bazalgette's VC Flight. Four representatives of the Village of Senantes (Mayor Christian Gavelle and his wife Sylvie, and Gaëtan Deffontaines and his wife Anne) travelled to Nanton to attended a commemorative program that also celebrated the tenth anniversary of the twinning of the two communities.

Mayors Handley and Gavelleplaced wreaths
in memory of S/L Bazalgette.





At the conclusion of the Lancaster's engine run honouring S/L Bazalgette VC DFC, the port-outer runs alone for one minute.
This was the only engine running when Baz landed the aircraft in a field adjacent to the Village of Senantes.
The aircraft's rear fuselage was filled with leaked fuel and the aircraft exploded
killing S/L Bazalgette and the two injured crew members he was attempting to save.




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