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Photos du Halifax du National Air Force Museum of Canada
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Sergent de section Joseph René Larivière
18 décembre 1944… C’est sa première mission! Le sergent de section Joseph René Larivière était un remplaçant dans l’équipage de Jean-Marie Desmarais. Il me manquait trois photos de l’équipage....
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Les photos dans le dossier militaire de Raymond Charles Gauthier
Assez bizarre comme découverte! Une série de photos trouvées dans un dossier militaire… Denise Desjardins, la mère de Raymond Charles Gauthier, avait écrit ceci le 9 juin 1945… Dear Sir, With regards...
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La 33e et dernière mission de Raymond Charles Gauthier
Raymond Charles Gauthier 1924-1944 La moyenne était de 11 opérations pour les aviateurs du Bomber Command. Après, c’est le destin qui décidait. René Larivière en était à sa première… René Larivière...
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Voices from the Past
This is the transcription below. (source YouTube) RAID OVER ESSEN, GERMANY, APRIL 1943 START OF RECORDING Bomb Aimer: OK, bombs gone. Pilot: OK… (mumbled) bomb aimer. Navigator: Was that...
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The Pilot by Philip Nicholson
Ken Marshall, whose father was a Flight Engineer with RAF 578 Squadron, posted this poem on a Facebook page. This poem was written by a gentleman called Philip Nicholson. Ken knows nothing more about...
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Requiem for an Air Gunner
Ken Marshall had shared this on his Facebook page. This one was written by a R. W. Gilbert, whom I suspect may have been a gunner. It’s called…… REQUIEM FOR AN AIR GUNNER. The pain has stopped, for I...
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Betty’s Bar
This is the list shared by Dave Donaghy. He does not know who listed the names on the mirrors. collection Laurent Lamontagne The list… J. Abilies Flight Sergeant D.F.Allen, 408 Squadron F.M. Anderson,...
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Bomber Command by Ken W. Marshall DFC
Ken Marshall’s son wrote me this message to share on my blog… This one was written by my Dad in 1944, and he later dedicated to one of his friends, Sgt. Reg Castle Hall, who went ‘Missing in Action’ on...
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Ken Marshall is sharing a poem
This was written by an air gunner, Harry Brown of 50 and 223 Sqdns after a visit to a Remembrance Service in the little Dutch town of Dronten with the Air Gunners Association. Ken Marshall *** We did...
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« Ops on » by Ken W. Marshall DFC
“Ops On” I dreamed last night I was back again, with the chaps once again I stood; There was Trev and Jimmy and Gordie – and: Dick in serious mood Geoff and Jack in a huddle, checking the course and...
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Absent Friends
A poem shared by Steve Allen Absent Friends Still, I see them marching by One by one, Though I know their lives have gone One by one But they sing a happy song ••••• And they call: “It won’t be long –...
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Untitled Poem
Shared by Ken Marshall Painting by Nico M. Peeters I suppose they’ll say his last thoughts were of simple things. Of April back home and the late sun on his wings. Or that he murmured someone’s name,...
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‘Not Forgotten Lady’
`Not Forgotten Lady’ We first met in 1944, when I was twenty years old. She was much younger than I, but I took, to her on first sight. There was no reaction from her, but then I didn’t expect there...
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An Air Gunner’s Lament
Posted by Ken Marshall So time for a poem. This was one was written by Sqdn.Ldr. ‘Dusty’ Miller, an air gunner who flew with 38, 69, 115, 148 and 458 Squadrons. He certainly got around and I’d love to...
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A Gunner’s Vow
A friend sent me this poem. A GUNNER’S VOW I wish to be a pilot And you along with me, But if we all were pilots, Where would the Air Force be? It takes guts to be a gunner; To sit out in the tail When...
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The Unveiling of the Bomber Command Association’s Statue of Sir Arthur Harris
Poster by Ken Marshall Poem written by Ken J. W. Marshall shortly after the unveiling of the Bomber Command Association’s statue of Sir Arthur Harris, by H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on...
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Ken Marshall’s Facebook Page
Ken Marshall has a Facebook Page honouring Bomber Command. He has written a book in 1996 and a revised edition which I have been reading since January. I have now a different view of the role Bomber...
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Mid-under gunner station on the Halifax
Taken from a book… Sent by a Facebook friend… Hi Pierre. How are things? I found a very good picture of the inside of the Preston Green Ventral Turret in Wallace Clarke`s excellent book British...
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Je me souviens
M L’adjudant Réal St-Amour s’est toujours souvenu de ses chers Alouettes. Sa fille Chantal partage fièrement les photos de son père, plusieurs centaines qu’elle a soigneusement numérisées et...
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