Vishal Kapoor recently spotted this relic at the Kanpur
club. Its a propellor blade of a WW II Japanese bomber shot down over the Bay of Bengal in
1943. The type of the aircraft is now known, but a small plaque on the tip of the
propellor blade informs that this was presented to the club by Mr. Leslie Irvin of the
famous Irwin Parachute.
The propeller blade set in a
stone base at the Kanpur Club.
The plate on top of the blade
informs us that this was presented to the Kanpur Club in the year 1944 by Mr. Leslie L
Irvin , inventor of the Irvin Parachute.
Vishal had sent us photographs of both the
blade as well as the Plate on the blade. Any further information on the exact details of
the Japanese bomber will be much appreciated by us.
