Memorial forging bonds between Japanese town, WWII pilot’s family

A memorial committed to a Canadian marine pilot that passed away while leading an air assault versus Japan in the winding down days of World War II stands in the northeastern town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, among the neighborhoods most significantly harmed in the 2011 quake and also tidal wave.

There are, as a matter of fact, 2 memorials put up in the Pacific shore town– one celebrating the location’s Japanese battle dead and also the various otherLt Robert Hampton Gray, a recipient of the Victoria Cross for whom a cenotaph was put up on the coasts of Onagawa Bay.

Today, there is hope that a relationship built between both nations, as soon as adversaries, will certainly proceed right into future generations.

On Aug 9, a funeral was kept in front of Gray’s monolith forgeting the bay. He was 27 years of ages when, as a participant of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve, his competitor airplane collapsed.

The Victoria Cross, …