In Search of Lost Values
It’s New Year’s Eve 2015. It is a time for reflection and gratitude. For men and women of my parents’ generation, New Year’s Eve holds a special meaning. As they worked their way through the deprivations of the …
THE HERO BEHIND THE RESURRECTION OF THE ROSELAND SPITFIRE
On the afternoon of Thursday, 13 July 1944, Squadron Leader Harold James Dowding led his 442 Squadron pilots back home across the French countryside after an uneventful fighter sweep behind enemy lines….
CANADIAN SPITFIRE UPDATE
In 1967, just 22 years after the end of the Second World War, when the producers of the epic motion picture Battle of Britain contracted with the legendary Group Captain Hamish Mahaddie,…
GHOST — The First Flight of the Roseland Spitfire
Arnold Roseland was just 28 years old when he died in an aerial gunfight over Normandy in the summer of 1944. He had fought both the Japanese in the Aleutians and the Nazis…
DEAR ARNOLD — A Letter to the Soul of a Spitfire
Dear Arnold, My name is Dave O’Malley. We’ve never met before. In fact, I was born 6 years and 5 months after that terrible day over Saint Martin de Mailloc, France. But, I must admit, sometimes I feel I know you. Well, maybe not well …
LE HÉROS COMMÉMORÉ PAR LA RESTAURATION DU ROSELAND SPITFIRE
En 1999, les membres du Comox Air Force Museum, sur l’île de Vancouver, ont entamé un projet de 10 ans visant à reconstruire un Supermarine Spitfire IX à partir des cendres d’une ancienne épave de l’armée de l’air sud-africaine. Une fois terminé, ce Spitfire…