This weekend past was the first weekend of the Canadian Tulip Festival, a two week long celebration here in the city of Ottawa. Parliament Hill, the banks of the Rideau Canal and the shores of the historic inner city waters …

During the Second World War, more than 72,000 young men served as pilots, navigators, air gunners, bomb aimers and flight engineers with the Royal Canadian Air Force, but following the end of hostilities, the vast majority never flew again.

Today, there are but a few old fighter pilots left from the Second World War who can claim that they survived a tour of dangerous low level ground attack missions in the Hawker Typhoon…

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, plus de 72 000 jeunes hommes ont servi comme pilotes, navigateurs, mitrailleurs, viseurs et ingénieurs de bord au sein de l’Aviation royale canadienne. Toutefois, après la fin…