{"id":24,"date":"2010-11-07T05:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T05:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.work.forfreedom.ca\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2012-04-01T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T00:52:19","slug":"history-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><div id=\"ccchildpages-1\" class=\"ccchildpages ccflex threecol simple ccclearfix\"><div class=\"ccchildpage  ccfirst ccodd ccpage-count-1 ccpage-id-6 ccpage-history ccpage-has-parent ccpage-pid-24 ccpage-parent-history-2\"><h3 class=\"ccpage_title\" title=\"WWII\">WWII<\/h3><div class=\"ccpages_excerpt\">By June 1941, the air war over England and continental Europe had been raging for 21 months and Allied fortunes were at their lowest ebb. On the ground, Hitler\u2019s forces, in an overwhelming series of Blitzkrieg operations, had laid waste to most of western Europe, while Nazi U-boats patrolled the North Atlantic shipping lanes with...<\/div><p class=\"ccpages_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?page_id=6\"  title=\"Read more ...\">Read more ...<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"ccchildpage  cceven ccpage-count-2 ccpage-id-27 ccpage-history-rockcliffe ccpage-has-parent ccpage-pid-24 ccpage-parent-history-2\"><h3 class=\"ccpage_title\" title=\"Rockcliffe\">Rockcliffe<\/h3><div class=\"ccpages_excerpt\">The Rockcliffe Era\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01949 \u2013 1964 10 Jan 49 408 Squadron is re-formed at RCAF Station Rockcliffe.\u00a0Its mission: To continue the aerial survey of Canada, previously being carried out by 413 and 414 (RCAF) Squadrons.\u00a0Between 1945 and 1949 these units combined to photograph nearly two million square miles of Canada, and were responsible for the...<\/div><p class=\"ccpages_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?page_id=27\"  title=\"Read more ...\">Read more ...<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"ccchildpage  cclast ccodd ccpage-count-3 ccpage-id-104 ccpage-rivers-era ccpage-has-parent ccpage-pid-24 ccpage-parent-history-2\"><h3 class=\"ccpage_title\" title=\"Rivers Era\">Rivers Era<\/h3><div class=\"ccpages_excerpt\">The Rivers Era 1964-1971 Feb 1964 In early February the squadron is moved to Rivers, Manitoba, where it assumes the disparate\u00a0roles of photo\/recce (T-33 Flight), aerial photography (Dakota Flight) and\u00a0paradrop\/transport\u00a0missions (C-119 Flight).\u00a0W\/C Orpen follows the squadron from Rockcliffe, continuing as CO. May 1965 In May, the C-119 aircraft are replaced by four C-130 (Hercules), which...<\/div><p class=\"ccpages_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?page_id=104\"  title=\"Read more ...\">Read more ...<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"ccchildpage  ccfirst cceven ccpage-count-4 ccpage-id-111 ccpage-edmonton ccpage-has-parent ccpage-pid-24 ccpage-parent-history-2\"><h3 class=\"ccpage_title\" title=\"Edmonton\">Edmonton<\/h3><div class=\"ccpages_excerpt\">The Edmonton Era 1971-Present The Squadron was re-activated Jan 1, 1971, at CFB Namao, as \u201c408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron\u201d flying CH135 Twin Huey and CH136 Kiowa helicopters. Over the next\u00a040+ years, 408 THS was involved in\u00a0multiple exercises in support of\u00a0No. 1 Canadian Brigade Group (later 1 CMBG). In 1996 408 Squadron was re-equipped with the...<\/div><p class=\"ccpages_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/?page_id=111\"  title=\"Read more ...\">Read more ...<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forfreedom.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}