Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

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.

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

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.

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Rob Kostecka Rob Kostecka

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; …

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John and Jim Taylor John and Jim Taylor

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….

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John Mendes John Mendes

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…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

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, …

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John Chalmers John Chalmers

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 …

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Anne Gafiuk Anne Gafiuk

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…

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Dave O'Malley Dave O'Malley

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 …

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Dave O'Malley with Todd Lemieux Dave O'Malley with Todd Lemieux

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, …

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