Group Captain Percival Stanley Turner, DSO, DFC and Bar (IWM Photo, CH 1376) Flight-Lieutenant P S Turner of No. 242Squadron RAF, rests on the tail elevator of his Hawker Hurricane Mark I, after landing at Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, (No. 242 Squadron were based at Coltishall, Norfolk at this time). Turner, a Canadian citizen, was a successful … Read more
Group Captain Robert Wendell “Buck” McNair, DSO, DFC and two Bars (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 4982734) S/L R.W. McNair, 24 Sep 1943. Group Captain Robert Wendell “Buck” McNair, DSO, DFC &Two Bars (15 May 1919 – 15 January 1971) was an RCAF flying ace of the SecondWorld War, with 16 or 16.5 … Read more
RCAF Major Donald Roderick MacLaren, DSO, MC & Bar, DFC, Croix de Guerre, Compangnonde la Légion d’Honneur (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3219005) Major D.R. MacLaren with a de Havilland D.H.9 aircraft `Leicester’ presented to Canada by the Imperial Air Fleet Committee, 21 Jan 1919. Major Donald Roderick MacLaren, DSO, MC & Bar, … Read more
RCAF Flight Lieutenant John Harlan Stickell, DSO, DFC, MiD, Navy Cross (USA), DFC (USA) (DND Photo) RCAF Flight Lieutenant John H. Stickell on the right playing cards with fellow airmen in England. Looks like their hut was cold as they are wearing their grey coats. Stickell was just one of the 8,864 Americans who served in … Read more
Flight Sergeant George. F. Beurling, DSO, DFC, DFM and Bar (Library and Archives Canada Photo, PL-22196) “The Falcon of Malta”, Flight-Sergeant George. F. Beurling, DSO, DFC,DFM and Bar, of No. 249 Squadron RAF. “There’sa lot of room there for a lot more,” quipped Beurling as he painted crosses onthe fuselage of his Supermarine Spitfire fighter … Read more
RCAF Warprize Flights This handbook concerns the collection of Air Technical Intelligence, and the test flying of war prizes carried out by two RCAF bomber pilots, S/L Joe McCarthy and S/L Ian Somerville, who were posted to the Royal Aircraft Establishment’s Foreign Aircraft Flight, Farnborough, in the United Kingdom in May 1945. Their primary task … Read more
