THE LAST FLIGHT OF BUFFALO 33
One was the son of an Air Marshall, the other the son of a Farmer. They died side by side, and were buried a thousand miles apart.
Le dernier vol de Buffalo 33
Tout était fini en quelques secondes. Trop peu de secondes pour que les deux hommes à l’intérieur comprennent ce qui se passait.
WE’LL GIVE ALL WE KNOW
Broadcaster and writer Tom Brokaw called them “The Greatest Generation”. More than sixty years ago, during the turmoil of the Second World War, they were young men and women in their twenties and thirties; …
A LINK TO VICTORY
About an hour's drive south and west of Ottawa lies the idylic little town of Gananoque. Unknown to most people and even the citizens of the town today, one small factory there played a significant part during the Second World War….
THE LAST OF THE MANY
A friend has remarked that I belong to an exclusive club which has not had a new entrant for 56 years and whose remaining members are now all around 75 years old. The common bond is that they were overseas…
GHOSTS OF SASKATCHEWAN
The Second World War was a time of powerful stresses on nations, on ethnicities, on families, and on economies around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of families, in every corner of the world, would offer up, …
SEXTANTS and SONNETS
When my father, F/L John W. (Jack) Chalmers wrote his memoirs as an RCAF navigator instructor, it was appropriate that he include some of his poetry that was inspired by his service in uniform during …
ME AND MR. JONES
The first day I met Gordon face to face, I brought him a lemon meringue pie. Little did I know how much he liked pie. Over the past two years and dozens and dozens of interviews, driving from Calgary to High River…
OXBOXES OVER THE PRAIRIES
This past summer, while researching images of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan operations at No. 36 Service Flying Training School at Penhold, Alberta, I went to one of the greatest …
MOOSE JAW, SASKATCHEWAN — A Prairie Town in the Second World War
If there ever was a heartland of Canada, a place where our traditional pre-electronic age Canadian values of humility, hard work, family, honesty and cheerfulness are alive and well, …
THE GHOSTS OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA
I'm am Eastern boy. Of that there's no doubt. Liberal, urban, soft—a bit of a pussy by Alberta standards. But when I sweep down out of Calgary on Highway 2, …
FOR THE RECORD — No.1 Bombing and Gunnery School, Picton, Ontario
The stories of the heroic airmen of the Second World War that we are all familiar with and which command our interest and our passion for history, are stories of flight training and the adventures and tragedies…