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Windsor, Ontario, Canada has Dieppe Memorial Gardens, and it had a Lancaster bomber mounted on a pedestal in Jackson Park for decades: https://windsorstar.com/
by redis_mlc 7y ago
Windsor, Ontario, Canada has Dieppe Memorial Gardens, and it had a Lancaster bomber mounted on a pedestal in Jackson Park for decades:
https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/windsor-to-swap-parts-overseas-to-help-keep-lancaster-bomber-flying-in-britain https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/windsor-to-swap-part...
The Lancaster was used to incinerate German cities, and the only clearly superior bomber was the B-29, used to incinerate all of the Japanese cities, save 5 for atomic bomb targets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster
Of course, as a child, I had no idea of the solemn significance of any of that.