Flight Officer Joseph Feldman (J22629) was the son of Morris and Nellie Feldman of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Joseph's Mother Nellie Feldman couldn't read.
When the RCAF telegram arrived at her home in Hamilton, on a June day in 1944, she let it sit on the mantle.
Her son Joseph, just 23 and one of the six boys she raised along with a daughter, was a bomb aimer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, serving aboard a Royal Air Force Lancaster.
Her grandson, Lionel Feldman, of Toronto, remembers the day the war came to Morris and Nellie's home.
"I'd gone over to visit my grandmother , and when I got there Grandma handed me the telegram and asked if I could read it," Lionel said in an interview.
"I was 9 years old and cocky and said something like ‘Of course I can, what'd you expect?' and I promptly began to read it.
"We regret to inform you …."
Years later it was later discovered that Lancaster ND580 had been shot down by a night fighter and fell into the North Sea.
Lancaster ND580 had lumbered off the runway at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, into the gathering dusk on May 11, 1944 to bomb a target in Belgium and then vanished.
Canadian Flying Officer J. Feldman, and the rest of the seven-man crew disappeared along with it, touching off 65 years of people wondering what became of the plane. No wreckage was ever found.
(Jack Porter, a member of the Lancaster Association in Lincoln, Britain, and the nephew of Pilot Officer A.T. (Bob) Jackson, who flew RAF Lancaster ND580 the night of May 11, 1944, spent years researching the plane and the mission.)
Joseph's Mother Nellie Feldman couldn't read.
When the RCAF telegram arrived at her home in Hamilton, on a June day in 1944, she let it sit on the mantle.
Her son Joseph, just 23 and one of the six boys she raised along with a daughter, was a bomb aimer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, serving aboard a Royal Air Force Lancaster.
Her grandson, Lionel Feldman, of Toronto, remembers the day the war came to Morris and Nellie's home.
"I'd gone over to visit my grandmother , and when I got there Grandma handed me the telegram and asked if I could read it," Lionel said in an interview.
"I was 9 years old and cocky and said something like ‘Of course I can, what'd you expect?' and I promptly began to read it.
"We regret to inform you …."
Years later it was later discovered that Lancaster ND580 had been shot down by a night fighter and fell into the North Sea.
Lancaster ND580 had lumbered off the runway at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, into the gathering dusk on May 11, 1944 to bomb a target in Belgium and then vanished.
Canadian Flying Officer J. Feldman, and the rest of the seven-man crew disappeared along with it, touching off 65 years of people wondering what became of the plane. No wreckage was ever found.
(Jack Porter, a member of the Lancaster Association in Lincoln, Britain, and the nephew of Pilot Officer A.T. (Bob) Jackson, who flew RAF Lancaster ND580 the night of May 11, 1944, spent years researching the plane and the mission.)
Flight Officer Joseph Feldman (J22629) was the son of Morris and Nellie Feldman of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Joseph's Mother Nellie Feldman couldn't read.
When the RCAF telegram arrived at her home in Hamilton, on a June day in 1944, she let it sit on the mantle.
Her son Joseph, just 23 and one of the six boys she raised along with a daughter, was a bomb aimer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, serving aboard a Royal Air Force Lancaster.
Her grandson, Lionel Feldman, of Toronto, remembers the day the war came to Morris and Nellie's home.
"I'd gone over to visit my grandmother , and when I got there Grandma handed me the telegram and asked if I could read it," Lionel said in an interview.
"I was 9 years old and cocky and said something like ‘Of course I can, what'd you expect?' and I promptly began to read it.
"We regret to inform you …."
Years later it was later discovered that Lancaster ND580 had been shot down by a night fighter and fell into the North Sea.
Lancaster ND580 had lumbered off the runway at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, into the gathering dusk on May 11, 1944 to bomb a target in Belgium and then vanished.
Canadian Flying Officer J. Feldman, and the rest of the seven-man crew disappeared along with it, touching off 65 years of people wondering what became of the plane. No wreckage was ever found.
(Jack Porter, a member of the Lancaster Association in Lincoln, Britain, and the nephew of Pilot Officer A.T. (Bob) Jackson, who flew RAF Lancaster ND580 the night of May 11, 1944, spent years researching the plane and the mission.)
Joseph's Mother Nellie Feldman couldn't read.
When the RCAF telegram arrived at her home in Hamilton, on a June day in 1944, she let it sit on the mantle.
Her son Joseph, just 23 and one of the six boys she raised along with a daughter, was a bomb aimer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, serving aboard a Royal Air Force Lancaster.
Her grandson, Lionel Feldman, of Toronto, remembers the day the war came to Morris and Nellie's home.
"I'd gone over to visit my grandmother , and when I got there Grandma handed me the telegram and asked if I could read it," Lionel said in an interview.
"I was 9 years old and cocky and said something like ‘Of course I can, what'd you expect?' and I promptly began to read it.
"We regret to inform you …."
Years later it was later discovered that Lancaster ND580 had been shot down by a night fighter and fell into the North Sea.
Lancaster ND580 had lumbered off the runway at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England, into the gathering dusk on May 11, 1944 to bomb a target in Belgium and then vanished.
Canadian Flying Officer J. Feldman, and the rest of the seven-man crew disappeared along with it, touching off 65 years of people wondering what became of the plane. No wreckage was ever found.
(Jack Porter, a member of the Lancaster Association in Lincoln, Britain, and the nephew of Pilot Officer A.T. (Bob) Jackson, who flew RAF Lancaster ND580 the night of May 11, 1944, spent years researching the plane and the mission.)
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