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DINNER THEATRE 2017
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Making It Home: A Remembrance
In 1942, long before he was Premier or a Member of Parliament, Angus MacLean was the 28-year-old pilot of a Halifax heavy bomber. On the night of June 8, as he and his crew were attacking the Krupp armaments factory in Essen, Germany, they were hit by flak and a night fighter. Two engines were knocked out. The crippled plane turned for home but couldn’t maintain altitude. By the time they were over Holland and approaching the North Sea, they were down to 1200 feet and falling. Angus gave the order to bail out. His crew went first and he barely escaped, landing hard in the same field as his plane. After lying stunned and unable to move for a few minutes, he regained the feeling in his legs, and gathered up his parachute and hid it under a bridge. So began a 72-day ordeal to escape the Nazis which took him through Holland, Belgium and France in the care of the heroic men and women of the Underground. |
MAKING IT HOME
DINNER THEATRE 2017 In 2017 we took a more serious turn with an evening of dramatic readings from Hon. J. Angus MacLean's memoir Making It Home. The readings focused on his escape from Nazi-occupied Holland during WWII; and were accompanied by music, including the By Da Molen, a beautiful love song performed in Dutch by William VanShuppen. The evening highlighted the bond forged between Canada and the Netherlands during the liberation of Holland. |