A photo album, filled with images of World War II related to the Dambuster operation in Germany, that was stolen, will be returned on Saturday, April 22 at the Bomber Command Museum in Nanton at 11 a.m.

The presentation represents years of legal work against Alex Bateman in England who borrowed the album, along with two log books to do research on the history of the Dambusters.

Museum Director Dave Birrell says the story picks up when Shere Lowe stopped at the Nanton Museum.

Conversations there lead her to search for information about her father, John Fraser, who was shot down over the Mohne Dam, in Germany, where he became a prisoner of war.

Fraser, a bomb-aimer was flying with Navigator Ken Earnshaw who was killed.

In the 1990's John Fraser's widow loaned Alex Bateman her husbands log book, and the Earnshaw family loaned their log book and photo album.

None of the items were ever returned.

"It became a 14 year effort to re-acquire the log book for her family," said Dave Birrell, museum director. "Bateman agreed to return it, then said it was lost in the mail."

He also forged a document, allegedly written by Fraser's mother, that gave him permanent possession of the log book.

When that didn't work he claimed the log books were stolen in a burglary.

When the police searched Bateman's flat they found the photo album, which was given to Shere Fraser after the five-day trial that found him guilty of the theft and sent him to jail for two years.

Lowe is returning the photo album, to Earnshaw's nephew Jim Heather of Vulcan.

The log books are still missing.

Along with the presentation of the photo album visitors to the museum will get to experience the sound and sight of four Lancaster Bombers engines as they roar to life.

Engine runs are at 11 A.M. and 2 P.M. when people can see and definitely hear the bomber come to life.

For more information on the theft of the log books and album and the days events check out Bomber Command Museum of Canada.