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Been There, Done That: Through Treacherous Skies<\/span> Paperback<\/span> \u2013 Jan 25 2006\"51JgtRWTH-L\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

by Ron Butcher DFC CD (Ret’d)<\/span><\/a> (Author)<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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It is the gripping life story of a decorated Air Navigator who, with his crew in a Lancaster, did a tour of operations in a Canadian squadron of RAF Bomber Command in WWII, spending nine months in the front lines. There are tales of night raids to Southeast Germany and 6 raids to Berlin. This milieu had up to 1 million personnel, 20,625 guns, 6,680 searchlights and about 400 fighters, a formidable barrier across Western Germany and around the targets, all with the prime purpose of frustrating the efforts to bomb, shooting down aircraft and killing crews being their preferred outcome. The tour terminated with bombing raids in France preparing for the invasion of Normandy. There are also interesting details of cultural life on the base, and in wartime Great Britain.<\/div>\n
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\"41UFJgCo34L\"<\/a><\/span>Letter to a New Grandson: The Story of a Ww2 Lancaster Pilot<\/span> Paperback<\/span> \u2013 Jun 8 2014<\/span><\/p>\n
by Wally Kasper<\/span><\/a> (Author)<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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.
\nThe story of a young couple in war torn England will touch the heart and bring to mind the realities of war.
\nIt is a story suitable for the young as well as the more seasoned military historian.
\nIt is an engrossing and memorable story of World War 2<\/div>\n
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Title:<\/strong>\u00a0 408 Squadron History
\nISBN:<\/b>\u00a0 0-920002-32-3
\nPublisher:<\/b>\u00a0 Canada’s Wings
\nYear of Publication:<\/b>\u00a0 1984
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\nHardcover:<\/b>\u00a0 Yes
\nDimensions:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a010.5″ w x 8.5″ h
\nPages:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0108
\nComments:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a01941 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.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"9781894031950_cover_coverbookpage-v2-modal\"<\/a>GLEN HANCOCK | <\/b>CHARLEY GOES TO WAR<\/span><\/p>\n

1 October 2004 | Memoir | $27.95 CAN | $22.95 US
\n1894031954 | Trade paperback<\/p>\n

Charley Goes to War<\/i> 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Hancock\u2019s memoir maintains a refreshing balance between the headline events of the war and daily life in training and on air force bases. The feel of the uniforms, the specifics of insignia, RCAF lingo and all the nuts and bolts of serving queen and country are made tangible in these pages. Hancock also details the less talked about highlights of volunteering: the perks of first class train travel, the guilty pleasure of being able to see the Canadian countryside and the sites of English and European history, and his opportunity to attend the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

On his often interrupted journey toward becoming an airman, Hancock trained at bases across Canada including Prince Rupert, Brandon, Ottawa and Torbay, before traveling by boat from New York to Scotland in 1944 and eventually operating out of No.408 Goose Squadron at Linton-on-Ouse in Yorkshire. Charley Goes to War<\/i> combines a wizened retrospective on the highlights of the Second World War with a sharply individual sense of what it meant at the time. Hancock describes the formation of his bomber crew, operational procedure, his first “sortie,” the equipment and everyday life on the squadron in a style both humorous and elegant.<\/p>\n

Despite the atmosphere and ideologies upon which the war was based, Hancock recognizes that many who fought were not entirely cognizant of the holocaust while it was going on. In a chapter entitled “The Horror of Belsen Death Camp” Hancock relives the trip he made to Belsen immediately after its liberation in 1945 and his witnessing of the Nazi\u2019s extermination project at the heart of the struggle to which he and so many other men and women were devoted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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