After years of work, the Nanton Bomber Command Museum is a step closer to getting a Halifax bomber off the floor of the ocean near Sweden.

Director Karl Kjarsgaard is travelling to Sweden to oversee the activity.

"We're ready to start salvaging, we've got a big tugboat, a diving team, we've got a warehouse, we've got a port of operations so starting on August 1st to August 15th yours truly will be in Sweden helping the boys to salvage a Halifax bomber and we'll raise it up and get it ready to ship back to Nanton so we can build a Halifax bomber at the Bomber Command Museum," he says.

It's a truly international effort with a Swedish dive team and a Danish tugboat working to bring up the Canadian aircraft.

He admits he'll miss some big events at the museum this summer but he can't pass up a chance to recover a World War II bomber that's been lying in the sand at the bottom of the ocean for 77 years.

He'll be posting updates and videos to the Bomber Command Museum's Facebook page throughout the endeavour and will make a presentation at the museum in September chronicling everything that happened on the trip.

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