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F/Lt. Asa Tobias "Guy" Mather
Royal Canadian Air Force
My father, Guy Mather quit university (Queens U. in Kingston, Ontario) in 1941 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in March. He was sent over to England after training to become a pilot. He had no Canadian crew and was assigned a British crew when he flew missions in Wellingtons or Halifaxes. After the war the wife and son of one of his crew came over to visit us in Ontario.
My father had some stories, but always funny ones. One was when his squadron left England to drop bombs in North Africa. They were to fly over water for a certain time. After not seeing land for too long a time they were lost so they turned left until they hit land and then looked for landmarks to try to determine their location. Another of his stories, the Air Force had developed a new tactic, dropping equipment out of transport planes. My dad said Generals were gathered as a plane flew over and dropped a jeep out of its cargo door. The parachute didn't open and according to my dad the wheels of the jeep bounced up and almost hit the plane. My mother said my father exaggerated in his stories.
After the war my father stayed in the service and flew transport, stationed in Edmonton, Lachine, Ottawa and finally Trenton where he retired in December of 1960. After retiring from the RCAF he and his wife and two children moved to London, Ontario where he became an elementary school principal until 1980. He and his wife Dean attended several squadron reunions in Winnipeg. He passed away in 1997.
