Missing (6 page)

I thank C. W. Hunt and Norm Christie for responding to my questions about World War I pilots. I thank the Archives of the Canadian War Museum for permission to fictionalize a real event that happened during 1917. I first came upon the file (#19720147) while gathering information for a story I was writing. For
Missing
, I decided to expand the story into a novel based on the bare facts of the actual incident: a plane crash in France witnessed by a young boy, and the mistaken identity of a lost Canadian pilot. Because this is a work of fiction, the locations and the names and details of characters in the story are totally invented.

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