Canada's only air force prisoner of the Korean war flew home to freedom last week. As the airliner from Tokyo touched down at the Vancouver airport, a handsome honey blonde broke from the crowd and ran to her husband, Squadron Leader
Andrew MacKenzie, freed after two years as a war prisoner in Communist China.
The 34-year-old Montreal fighter-pilot was serving as an exchange officer with the U.S. Air Forces in Korea when he was shot down in 1952. At the Geneva Conference last June, Canada made a direct appeal to Chinese Foreign Minister Chou En-lai for MacKenzie's release, but the Chinese...
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