Stories From 408 Squadron Members
Painting “Watching the Russkies” [ by Don Connolly ] In mid September of 1954, in my last 30 days on 408 (Photo) Squadron, I was informed by my Nav Leader, F/L Andy Clarke, that I was to go on a […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...The Rockcliffe Years – The Photo Mapping By Squadron Leader Morris Konick, (Ret‘d), CD As a former Photo Officer with 408 (Photo) Squadron, and you will note I purposely emphasized Photo Squadron, because I wanted to differentiate if form […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...408 Returns to Oudenburg By Captain Jeffrey Bird 408 SQN At 17:55 local time on November 9, 1941 a formation of nine aircraft took off for a night raid from Syerston airfield, ten miles to the north east ofNottingham. One […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...Diary of a Snake Charmer 408 Sqn RCAF By M. Ridgeway Manning Pool, where good boys were made better Manning Pool , or Manning Depot , makes no never mind, was located in the mouldering pile known as the Agricultural […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...Our First Mission by Bruce Wallace The target was a flying bomb site (V1) at or near L’HEY just over the coast of France. Exactly where doesn’t matter to the event. It was our first operation (OP), as a crew, […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...The Little Old Lady By Wally Kasper It was a raw November night with just enough broken cloud to reveal a full moon so we aircrew types had been stood down from ops. The Bomber squadrons didn’t operate during the […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...Shoran recollections of a 19-year old Airman – the kid in the Squadron By Ron Blessin I was only a short-timer in the RCAF. I joined at the age of 17, right after High School graduation in Chilliwack, B.C. There […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry... 408 (P) SQUADRON SHORAN OPERATIONS 1949 – 1957 As previously stated, the airborne photography program conducted for many years by the Air Board and then the RCAF, provided a picture of the ground features but the position […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...The Bochum Raid Certain periods in our lives were experienced with such intensity that they remain deeply etched in memory. The short time that Emmy and I were at Linton-on-Ouse was such a time. There was only the present, and it […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth By Wally Kasper True love in Jolly Olde England was hard enough to find in the wartime years without its path being fractured by a thundering mighty Lancaster early in […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...THE KINGSVILLE CONNECTION 1941-45 and Beyond by Gary R Tetzlaff The Squadron’s first CO, W/C Nelles Timmerman has explained how he chose a goose for the heraldry–as a second choice. What remains unclear, is how in his mind, the Canada […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...Piloting a heavily-armed Griffon helicopter over Afghanistan By Gary Lewchuk “The ability to prevent troops from being fired upon just by our presence, not even having to fire a round, is something to take pride in,” said Captain Jason Marchinko, who […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...The original Lancaster, of yesteryear, was designed for only one purpose, that of conducting the operations of mid-latitude heavy bombers; it was not really designed for activities in the high latitude winter arctic; but, it was all we had at […]
↓ Read the rest of this entry...How The Lancaster “Miss Kingsville” Got Her Name by Bob Swaddling In 1974 I was in a hobby shop in Detroit and bought a Profile Publications book on the camouflage and markings of the lesser known Lancaster Mk II with […]
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