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Aces, Warriors and Wingman Wayne Ralph

Aces, Warriors and Wingman By Wayne Ralph

Aces, Warriors and Wingman by Wayne Ralph


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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.

Aces, Warriors and Wingman Summary

Aces, Warriors and Wingman: The Firsthand Accounts of Canada's Fighter Pilots in the Second World War by Wayne Ralph

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 in closer and take a good look at it, as it is a different type of aircraft and I can report on it when we get down'. So I closed in, which was the stupidest thing I ever did...The mid-upper gunner was not dead; he was sitting inside of the flames. The next thing I saw the gun traversing down toward us.I broke as fast as I could, but he put forty to forty-four 13mm cannon shells into us. I had pistons blown out of one engine and the constant speed unit blown out in the other. We were going to bail out! We jettisoned the door and the navigator was halfway out when the chap came back from the Ground Control Intercept (GCI) and said, 'There is a Force 9 to 10 sea and we will never be able [to rescue] you'. So we brought that aircraft back to Bradwell Bay and I can tell you it near flew again. My navigator was wounded, bleeding from the face. I could see the engines running red hot, one was actually running on molten metal...the whole thing glowing inside. The air bottles were shot away and I had no brakes for landing. The Mosquito was in ribbons.

About Wayne Ralph

Wayne Ralph was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, and served as a pilot in the Canadian Armed Forces between 1965 and 1973. From 1981-1983, Wayne w2as a Dept. of National Defence Strategic Studies Scholar at the University of Calgary. he is the former editor of Wings Magazine, past president of the Air Force Officers Association of Greater Vancouver, and a member of the Air Force Association of Canada. He published a biography of William Barker, the air ace from the First World War, and Barker VC became a bestseller in Canada and the UK, won the McWilliams Medal of the Manitoba Historical Society, and was the basis for two television documentaries.

Table of Contents

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.

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GOR008720343
9780470835906
0470835907
Aces, Warriors and Wingman: The Firsthand Accounts of Canada's Fighter Pilots in the Second World War by Wayne Ralph
Used - Very Good
Hardback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2005-05-06
288
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