Honkers Happening June 2018
Camp Follower: One Army Brat’s Story
Michele Sabad takes us on one Canadian Army brat’s life journey with stories about a childhood in Calgary, Germany, Labrador, and Saskatchewan; becoming a young Air Force wife and Hockey Mom in Edmonton, Kingston, Winnipeg, and Cold Lake; building a career in Information Technology; and finally, settling in a new culture and life in Ottawa and Aylmer, Quebec. Michele’s story will interest, inspire, and enlighten both those who grew up in “the life” and those curious to peek at how this kind of life turned out. “A base brat life,…
Read MoreTactical helicopter squadrons prepare for deployment to Mali
Image Gallery News Article / May 23, 2018 From the Royal Canadian Air Force Helicopters and personnel from the Royal Canadian Air Force’s 450 and 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadrons completed an exercise on May 22, 2018, to validate their capabilities in anticipation of an eventual deployment of a Task Force to Mali as part of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). The pre-deployment preparation achieved the integration of the CH-146 Griffon and CH-147F Chinook helicopters, the validation of the Forward Aeromedical Evacuation capability, and certification of the headquarters…
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‘Somebody’s thinking about these boys’: New memorial in German town to honour doomed RCAF bomber crew Memorial to Lancaster LL687 will mark the spot where bomber fell in 1944, killing 7 Canadian airmen By Stephen Smith, CBC News Posted: Jul 09, 2017 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jul 09, 2017 1:27 PM ET Audrey Somers has done her best over the last 73 years to put the death of her 23-year-old brother Harold behind her, but it’s caught up with her yet again. ‘That day was like a scythe’: Montreal and the casualty lists of Vimy…
Read MoreGo For Shakedown
Go For Shakedown follows my experiences through Afghanistan. It is a fictionalized dialogue between characters based on true events. It aims to capture the human side of war from the absurd situations to the complexity of actual helicopter missions; all through the development of about a dozen characters and their interactions and reactions both on the ground and in the air. Shakedown is a call-sign for the helicopter. The helicopter is a civilian pattern helicopter that was converted into escort gunships by Canada in order to “get the job done.”…
Read More408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron deploys in support of Operation Impact
News Article / April 18, 2017 From National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces About 60 members of 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, based at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base in Edmonton, Alberta, departed on April 17, 2017, for northern Iraq. There, they will assume the duties of the Tactical Aviation Detachment of Air Task Force–Iraq as part of Operation Impact, the Canadian Armed Forces’ commitment to the fight against Daesh. “The Royal Canadian Air Force is proud to be part of the Canadian Armed Forces’ contribution to the ongoing fight against Daesh,”…
Read MorePassing of Mother Goose
RAYNER, Henrietta May “Molly” Peacefully at Brampton Civic Hospital on December10, 2015 at the age of 96. Loving wife of the late Don. Will be sadly missed by two daughters and her extended family in Ontario, Quebec, Australia and Wales. During World War II, Molly cooked for and was known as “Mother Goose” to the 408 Squadron Private family services have will be held. Interment at St. Elias Cemetery Please visit the Book of Memories at www.wardfuneralhome.com
Read MoreCharley Goes to War
Charley Goes to War is an account of the Second World War told through the experiences of an RCAF airman from Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Glen Hancock takes us from the streets of Wolfville on September 4, 1939, to Canada’s training camps, and from there to his first operation out of No. 408 Goose Squadron until the final defeat of Nazi Germany and his return to Canada in 1945. Hancock’s memoir maintains a refreshing balance between the headline events of the war and daily life in training and on air force…
Read More408 Squadron History
Title: 408 Squadron History ISBN: 0-920002-32-3 Publisher: Canada’s Wings Year of Publication: 1984 Author: Hardcover: Yes Dimensions: 10.5″ w x 8.5″ h Pages: 108 Comments: 1941 to 1984. Covers operations overseas in WWII on the Hampden, Halifax, Lancaster. Post War on the Lancaster, C-119, C-130, T-33, Huey and Kiowa. Many period photos, mainly B & W, of squadron personnel and aircraft.
Read MoreLetter to a New Grandson: The Story of a Ww2 Lancaster Pilot
Letter to a New Grandson: The Story of a Ww2 Lancaster Pilot Paperback – Jun 8 2014 by Wally Kasper (Author) Letter to a New Grandson, The Story of a WW2 Lancaster pilot depicts the fears, the tactics, the dramas encountered by those brave men of Bomber Command. Wally’s unique voice will take you along with his crew on missions fraught with danger. The story of a young couple in war torn England will touch the heart and bring to mind the realities of war. It is a story suitable…
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