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" Aces, Warriors and Wingmen : "
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BL
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980491
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b734861
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| Main Entry
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Ralph, Wayne.
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Aces, Warriors and Wingmen : : the Firsthand Accounts of Canada's Fighter Pilots in the Second World War.
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| Publication Statement
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Hoboken :: Wiley,, 2005.
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1 online resource (288 pages)
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047015814X
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: 9780470158142
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| Notes
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David John "Blackie" Williams, Wing Commander.
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| Contents
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Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- PART ONE: KITTYHAWK ACE OF THE WESTERN DESERT CAMPAIGN -- James Francis "Stocky" Edwards, Wing Commander -- PART TWO: CANADIANS IN THE SIEGE OF MALTA -- Roderick Illingsworth Alpine Smith, Squadron Leader -- The Siege of Malta -- Robert George "Bob" Middlemiss, Flight Lieutenant -- Ian Roy Maclennan, Flight Lieutenant -- Memories of George Frederick Beurling in Malta -- Rod Smith's October Bailout -- Robert Carl "Moose" Fumerton, Wing Commander.
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Arthur Hazelton Sager, Flight Lieutenant -- Richard Douglas Booth, Flight Lieutenant -- Booth's Bailout over the English Channel -- Ramrod 290: November 3, 1943 -- William Francis Joseph Mason, Flight Lieutenant -- PART SEVEN: THE WORLD OF THE BEAUFIGHTER AND MOSQUITO IN BRITAIN -- Robert Ross "Bob" Ferguson, Squadron Leader -- Competition at West Malling -- Rayne Dennis Schultz, Squadron Leader -- Ian Anderson March, Flight Lieutenant -- William Horace Vincent, Flight Lieutenant -- Harold Douglas McNabb, Flight Lieutenant -- George "Red" Sutherland, Squadron Leader.
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David Goldberg, Squadron Leader -- PART FOUR: THE WORLD OF THE UNARMED PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE PILOT -- John William "Brick" Bradford, Flying Officer -- William Keir "Bill" Carr, Flight Lieutenant -- PART FIVE: CANADIANS IN THE RAF AND FLEET AIR ARM, 1939-40 -- William Lidstone "Willie" McKnight, Flying Officer -- (letters home to Canada from Willie McKnight) -- Arthur Henry "Art" Deacon, Flight Lieutenant -- Richard Edward Bartlett, Lieutenant -- PART SIX: THE DEADLY YEARS: RHUBARBS AND CIRCUSES AND MANY, MANY WULFIES -- William Barry Needham, Flight Lieutenant.
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George Dennis Aitken, Flight Lieutenant -- Lloyd Vernon Chadburn, Wing Commander -- Robert Dulmage "Dagwood" Phillip, Flight Lieutenant -- Arthur John "Jack" Moul, Squadron Leader -- Michell Johnston, Squadron Leader -- Norris Edmund Hunt, Flight Lieutenant -- Roman Roy Wozniak, Flight Lieutenant -- Fighter Sweep, led by Alan Deere, RNZAF, June 2, 1942 -- Douglas Warren, Flight Lieutenant -- Bruce Warren, Flight Lieutenant -- The Dieppe Raid, August 19, 1942 -- Allan Robert McFadden, Flight Lieutenant -- Interned by the Vichy French in Africa -- Richard Drummond Forbes-Roberts, Flight Lieutenant.
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Leslie Patrick Sandford "Pat" Bing, Flight Lieutenant (Fumerton's navigator) -- Gordon Henry Taylor Farquharson, Flight Lieutenant -- Memories of the Loss of Liberator AL511 at Gibraltar -- PART THREE: THE WESTERN DESERT, 1942-43, AND ITALY, 1943-44 -- Death of a Luftwaffe Ace in the Western Desert -- John Terrance "Terry" Field, Flight Lieutenant -- Rex Howard Probert, Flight Lieutenant -- Milton Eardley Jowsey, Flight Lieutenant -- Stanley John Kernaghan, Flight Lieutenant -- Irving Farmer "Hap" Kennedy, Squadron Leader -- Edwards at Anzio Beachhead -- Six Downed in One Op.
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A celebration and a tribute to the warriors of the air who as young men served their country with unselfish devotion. Hear their words. Join these young Canadians in combat. AN EXCERPT FROM THE ACCOUNT OF GROUP CAPTAIN RAYNE SCHULTZ, 410 SQUADRON. It was heading home very fast, a Junkers 188, in thin cloud, well out over the North Sea. We hit it badly, and it was flaming, two-three hundred yards [of] flames streaming behind ... my navigator, being a serious-minded individual said, ""Let's get in closer and take a good look at it, as it is a different type of aircraft and I can report on it.
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Air pilots, Military-- Canada, Biography.
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Canada.-- Royal Canadian Air Force, Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Aerial operations, Canadian.
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World War, 1939-1945-- Personal narratives, Canadian.
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| Dewey Classification
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940.54/49710922B
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D792.C2 -- R34 2005eb
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