NOTICE: Those truckers that are used to taking the Yellowhead between Edmonton and Kamloops probably made their pit stop at Peter and Eleanor’s McLure Restaurant in McLure BC.

In business for years, Peter, Eleanor and Renee were known far and wide in the transportation industry for their great food, clean restaurant and genuine friendly ways. It was a home away from home for many truckers.

Well the good news for those travelling the #3 Highway, is that they are back. Truckers along the #3 corridor are in for a real treat for Eleanor and Renee will be glad to serve you.

Their new restaurant is called the Home Style Cafe, they are open from 7 AM to 7 PM daily. They are located 12 miles east of Creston on the #3. So try it. They have the parking and would love to meet you.  

November 2008—Tibbets who dropped the Atom bomb

Tibbets did what he was told and President Truman, two years later, told him that he, Truman, took full responsibility.

Personally, I would have done it differently, but at the time the decision saved a lot of lives. I have a copy of the Japanese book, "Grey Cloud" that tells the story of the Hiroshima survivors.

Incidentally, Hiroshima was the centre of a large industrial complex making war materials. Civilians making war materials are as much a proper target as soldiers.

Those of us that served in Bomber Command are being maligned because we killed 600,000 German civilians, mostly making war materials. We also won the war by destroying the German capability of making aviation and tank fuel from coal.  This, not the strong attacks by Russians, made it necessary for the Nazis to retreat from Russia. In Normandy they had zero air support, but still held the Allies for a long time. Aircraft sank most of the submarines. They sank almost all the great battleships like the German Tirpitz and Japanese Yamato.  Montgomery said "First win the air battle": as no land offensive can succeed without air superiority. For most of the war, the Germans had local\air superiority. When they lost it they lost the war. Much the same was true for the Japanese whose Zeros once swept the skies in the Far East.

More than half those that served in Bomber Command lost their lives (60,000) Canadians had a major share in this force and the Empire Air Training Program in Canada was the source of most of these men.

We fought from the beginning of the war to the end while the soldiers sat on their arses in the UK for four years until, the invasion. In Normandy they were saved by the Royal artillery and the Air Force with their fighter bombers. Now the Generals are trying to say that what we did was of no account or that it was immoral to bomb civilians. This is utter nonsense. Albert Speer said that the very worst blow against Germany was by Bomber Command.  He read the American Army Strategic Bombing Survey and totally disagreed with its findings. The Bombing campaign absorbed more than half the 88 mm automatic cannon made in Germany that were able to destroy Allied tanks at will and a similar proportion of fighter forces together with a vast amount of ammunition, searchlights etc. An enormous force of slave laborers was required to repair damage from allied bombing. —G. Wasteneys