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German bombers drop loads of bombs |
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search lights on the skies |
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Consolidated Canso flying boats were flown by RCAF crews patrolling the Atlantic and the St. Lawrence coasts. Canso 9798 of 160 (BR) Squadron, RCAF, is shown during mercy flight in Newfoundland, 13 October 1944. National Archives of Canada, PA-070818. |
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Venturas, Mitchells and Liberators waiting at Dorval before flying over to Great Britain, Dorval, Quebec, May 13th, 1942.
Photograph by Nicholas Morant. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-114759. |
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A cat on patrol on the Dorval tarmac; in the background Liberators and Hudsons are lined up. Cats were used to destroy rodents that could damage the canvas-covered airframes.
Photograph by Nicholas Morant. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-114767. |
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Ferry Command crews returning to Nassau on a cargo plane, October 1943. During the long journey in the Liberator's hold, everyone signs his name on the "short-snorter", a strip of banknotes from all the different countries over which they flew.
Photograph by Ronny Jacques. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-114612. |
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RAF Vickers Wellington medium bombers flying in formation, circa 1940.
National Archives of Canada, PA-128144. |
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The Operations Room of RCAF No 405 Squadron, in 1941.
National Defence Image Library, RE 74-385. |
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Part of the Skipton-on-Swale Air Base facilities, in Yorkshire, where No 424 and No 433 Squadrons were stationed. The Nissen huts with their curved, corrugated iron roofs were used as lodging quarters, August 10th, 1945.
National Defence Image Library, PL 45597. |
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The ground crew doing maintenance work on a Halifax II of No 408 Squadron at Leeming, August 10th, 1943.
National Defence Image Library, PL 19510. |
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6 Group's last bombing raid against the coastal batteries in Wangerooge, on the Friesian Islands, on April 25th, 1945. Five Canadian crews were lost following a chain collision.
National Defence Image Library, PL 144281. |
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F/O Gus Utah, navigator on a 427 Squadron bomber; Ruthless Robert, the crew's mascot keeps him company.
National Defence Image Library, PL 28520. |
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Crews of 425 Squadron board a truck for a drive out to their Wellingtons at Dishforth.
National Defence Image Library, PL 10811. |
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Operations monitoring at the Eastern Air Command HQ, Halifax, January 9th, 1943.
National Defence Image Library, PL 14623. |
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Typhoons from a RCAF fighter squadron getting ready to take off, Netherlands, April 2nd, 1945. National Defence Image Library, PL 42816. |
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An Italian farmhouse used as No 417 Squadron HQ near Lentini, Sicily, August 26th, 1943. National Defence Image Library, PL 18285. |
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Life goes on... A Canadian pilot giving a hand to a French farmer for the wheat harvest; in the field, No 404 Squadron Typhoons. National Defence Image Library, PL 31378. |
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Flying Officer N.R.D. Dick in the cockpit of his Spitfire. National Defence Image Library, PL 4561. |
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Four pilots of 438 Squadron in 1943: P/O R.E. Johnson on the wing and, from left to right, F/O R.F. Reid, F/O H.E. Dawber and F/O R.M. McKenzie. Johnson and McKenzie were killed in action on July 15th, 1944, and July 18th, 1944. National Defence Image Library, PL 22802. |
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This Typhoon of 439 Squadron just left the strip of a forward base in Holland, April 2nd, 1945. National Defence Image Library, PL 42818. |
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Two Spitfires of 443 Squadron take off at radio-mast height of flying control van in Holland. National Defence Image Library, PL 43156. |
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Mass drop of the 1st Battalion from Douglas Dakota aircrafts, Salisbury Plain, England, February 6th, 1944.
Photo by Ed. Smith. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-132785. |
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Paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute battalion on a Churchill tank: Privates E. D. Aziz, P. G. Mulroy, Sergeant G. H. Jickels, Privates L. O. Fuson, J. Humeniuk, G. M. Brown, R. H. Carlton. Greven, Germany, April 5th (or 31st March), 1945.
Photo by Charles H. Richer. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-142610. |
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A weary paratrooper takes some rest in a slit trench. Varaville June 6, 1944.
Photo John Ross, courtesy of the Archives of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion Association. |
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Bombers fly overhead |
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Londoners take shelter underground. |
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A squadron of allied bombers. |
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Allied plane taking off in the dark. |
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Luftwaffe flies with the Nazi flag in the foreground. |
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The sky is filled with bombers. |
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A plane taking off. |
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RAF pilots scrambling to their planes. |
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