Aces, Warriors and Wingmen: The Firsthand Accounts of Canada's Fighter Pilots in the Second World War
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...
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ACES, WARRIORS & WINGMEN FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS OF CANADA'S FIGHTER PILOTS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. Almost a decade ago, Wayne Ralph, the author of a bestselling biography of William Barker, a Canadian air ace from the First World War, embarked on a new venture. He began to travel across Canada and the United States, Searching out Canadian fighter pilots, fighter-bomber pilots, and many others-inducing night fighter and naval carrier pilots-and air crew who had served in the Second World war. The results of this unique and remarkable journey are encompassed in accounts from more than a hundred interviews that in riveting detail tell of the trials, victories and losses that characterize combat in the air. From the author's interviews with the pilots, and information contained in their logbooks, diaries and letters home, the reader will be escorted into the world of combat, from training in Canada and England, to engaging the enemy over Malta, northern Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia. For airmen, living conditions were often harsh, sleep a luxury and emotions on a roller-coaster. the sudden loss of friend-even a brother-had to be taken in stride and the job at hand done. Survival depended on a pilot's skill and the condition and characteristics of the aircraft. Hurricanes, Spitfires, Mosquitoes, beaufighters, and Typhoons carried their bullets, bombs and human cargo through horrendous weather conditions and withering enemy fire. There were bonds between man and machine much as there were between the pilots, who were on constant lookout for one another. As the ranks of veterans become thinner, their firsthand accounts take on even more significance. Aces, warriors & Wingmen is a tribute to a legacy of sacrifice, courage and gallantry, a true picture of combat, and a piece of Canadian history to be treasured.
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. Robert George "Bob" Middlemiss, Flight Lieutenant. Ian Roy Maclennan, Flight Lieutenant. Robert Carl "Moose" Fumerton, Wing Commander. Leslie Patrick Sandford "Pat" Bing, Flight Lieutenant (Fumerton's navigator). Gordon Henry Taylor Farquharson, Flight Lieutenant. PART THREE: THE WESTERN DESERT, 1942-43, AND ITALY, 1943-44. Death of a Luftwaffe Ace in the Western Desert. John Terrane "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. 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. 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. George Dennis Aitken, Flight Lieutenant. Lloyd Vernon Chadburn, Wing Commander. Robert Dulmage "Dagwood" Phillip, Flight Lieutenant. Arthur John "Jack" Moul, Squardron Leader. Michell Johnston, Squadron Leader. Norris Edmund Hunt, Flight Lieutenant. Roman Roy Wozniak, Flight Lieutenant. Douglas Warren, Flight Lieutenant. Bruce Warren, Flight Lieutenant. Allan Robert McFadden, Flight Lieutenant. Richard Drummond Forbes-Roberts, Flight Lieutenant. Arthur Hazelton Sager, Flight Lieutenant. Richard Douglas Booth, Flight Lieutenant. William Francis Joseph Mason, Flight Lieutenant. PART SEVEN: THE WORLD OF THE BEAUFIGTHER AND MOSQUITO IN BRITAIN. Robert Ross "Bob" Ferguson, Squadron Leader. 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. David John "Blackie" Williams, Wing Commander. Clarence Joseph Kirkpatrick, Flight Lieutenant (navigatorwith Williams, Bannock). James Davidson Wright, Flight Lieutenant (navigator with Squadron Leader McFadyen). Ross Hunter Finlayson, Flight Lieutenant. William Lloyd Marr, Flight Lieutenant. John Harod "Jack" Phillips, Flight Lieutenant. Russell William "Russ" Bannock, Wing Commander. Sydney Simon Shulemson, Flight Lieutenant. PART EIGHT: TWO AMERICANS IN THE RCAF. Philip Gordon (Bockman) Vickers, Flying Officer. Howard Lynn Phillips, Flight Lieutenant. PART NINE: RCAF SPITFIRE OPERATIONS, FROM BRITAIN AND EUROPE. Kenneth Charels Lett, FLight Lieutenant. James Douglas Lindsay, Flight Lieutenant. Donald Currie Laubman, Squadron Leader. Robert Bruce Barker, Flight Lieutenant. PART TEN: CANADA'S TYPHOON PILOTS. Harry James Hardy, Flight Lieutenant. William Ivan Mouat, Flight Lieutenant. John Wallace Porter, Flight Lieutenant. Donald Edward George Martyn, Flight Lieutenant. Herbert Roy Burden, Flight Lieutenant. Robert Edward Spooner, Squardon Leader. Martin John "Pat" Peterson, Leading Aircraftman (Fitter). PART ELEVEN: THE FIGHTER PILOT"S WAR IN INDIA AND BURMA. Atholl Sutherland Brown, Flight Lieutenant. Harold Taylor Hope, Flight Lieutenant. Bert Dennis Madill, Flight Lieutenant. Frederick Howard Sproule, Flight Lieutenant. PART TWELVE: THREE PILOTS OF THE FLEET AIR ARM IN THE PACIFIC THEATRE. Robert Hampton Gray, Lieutenant. Donald John Sheppard, Lieutenant. William Henry Issac Atkinson, Lieutenant. PART THIRTEEN: REHABILITATION, READJUSTMENT AND RE-ENTRY. Stories of Ivan Mouat, Jack Moul, Roy Burden, Stocky Edwards, Geoff northcott, Doug Booth, Goerge "Pat" Patterson, Al McFaddden, derrick England, Frank Hubbard, Bill Roddie, John "Red" Francis, Rod Smith, Burdette Gillis, and Don Walz. Appendices. References. Index.
