Rusell McIntyre (RCAF) moved to Dryden when he was eight, attended elementary and secondary school here.
His father was a local bank manager. On December 23, 1943, Pilot-Officer McIntyre was the co-pilot of a Wellington bomber flying a training mission in England. As they were returning to base, one of the engines stopped and the plane began losing altitude. Russell unstrapped himself from his seat and climbed down between the wings to manually crank down the landing gear.
He was the only one not strapped in, and he was the only one killed when the plane crashed in a farmer’s field.
He was just 20 years old when he died – buried at Haycombe Cemetery in Bath, England
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all information/images provided courtesy of Spuro Sourtzis, supplied by Don Chochrane
