After a 70-year wait, Roy Morrison finally received the medals he earned in the Second World War.

The medals were recently delivered to the 91-year-old resident of Truro, N.S. by mail, and presented to him in a small unofficial ceremony held by his friends.

"Happy to see it come to an end," Morrison told CTV Atlantic. "Seventy years is a long time to wait for something.”

Morrison served in Royal Canadian Air force as tail gunner in an Avro Lancaster bomber, and his crew flew in 35 successful missions over Germany.

"At night, it was very scary because you would see all the (anti-aircraft fire), bursting in the air right beside you," Morrison said. "Our aircraft was hit several times, but never damaged to the extent that we couldn’t get back.”

While the rest his comrades received medals after the war for their service, the lapels of Morrison's military uniform remained bare.

At Remembrance Day ceremonies over the years, the 91-year-old veteran couldn't help but feel slighted.

"Yeah, it kind of bothered me … everybody wore their medals on Remembrance Day and I didn’t have any," Morrison told CTV Atlantic.

Morrison wrote a letter to the minister of Veterans Affairs years ago, but his inquiry went unanswered.

"I never heard, I never got a reply, so I said 'well, that's that,' and I went on with my life," he said.

One of his friends -- a younger RCAF veteran named Harvey Coll -- was shocked that Morrison had not been recognized for his contributions to the war effort. Earlier this year, Coll reached out again to the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.

Several weeks later, Morrison's medals arrived in the mail.

Coll proudly presented the Second World War veteran with his newly acquired medals at a small ceremony.

Coll said he was "elated" to see his friend get what he "earned during a very difficult war time."

While Morrison says that he wasn't asking for accolades, he is excited to wear his medals on Remembrance Day.

"'I'm not a person who looks for that kind of stuff, I just did what I had to do, (and) thankfully I got through it," he said.