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How can a funeral of an old soldier in Canada have any links with some momentous events in war torn Europe of the 1940s? For one fortunate journalist, in the right place at the right time, the opportunity to find out presented itself on a very cold day in Ontario in 2003. A chance meeting with the elderly widow revealed a past that at first seemed to incredible to be true. “Did you know I flew Spitfires in 1943?” the widow asked the young woman. However, as she came to know the widow and learned her story, she came to believe her amazing tale. With the widow’s consent, the journalist began her biography, on condition that she publish the book after the elderly lady’s death.