Canadian Aces of WW2
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For "Most Honorable Mentions - Canadian Fighter Pilots & Air Gunners of WW2" click here
Also, I need some help identifying some 401 & 418 squadron members
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I need some with this mystery Unnamed Canadian Fighter Pilot |
(Hm, Interesting ... 100+ ??? |
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"Screwball" "Buzz" George Frederick Beurling |
the "Falcon of Malta" 31.33 - 29.33 (+ 9 damaged) |
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"Woody" Vernon Crompton Woodward |
(+ 2 OTG) 22 -19 (+ 5 prob & 11 dam) |
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"Eddie" "Stocky" "Jimmy" James Francis Edwards |
(+ 12 OTG / 2 dam) 21 (+ 6.5 prob & 16 dam) |
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"Wally" * Henry Wallace McLeod |
(KIA 27sep44) 21 (+ 4 prob & 10 dam) |
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"Johnny" John Trevor Godfrey |
(POW 24aug44) Americanadian) 18 (+ 18 OTG) |
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"Hilly" * Mark Henry Brown |
(KIA 12nov41 |
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"Willie" * William Lidstone McKnight |
(KIA 12jan41) |
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"Buck" "The Chief" Robert Wendell McNair |
16 (+ 5 prob & 11 dam) * |
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"Jack" "Johnny" Edward Francis John Charles |
(UKadian, D 5nov1986) 15.5 (+ 6.5 prob & 5 dam) |
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"Goody" James Alexander Goodson |
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"Don" Donald Currie Laubman |
(POW 14apr45) 15 (+ 3 dam) |
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"Bob" Robert Allen Kipp |
( KiFA 25 July 1949 ) |
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"Bill" "Gristle" "Grizzle" * William Thomas Klersy |
(KIFA 22may45, 22 year old S/L) 14.5 (+ 3.5dam, + 2 OTG) |
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"Hap" Irving Farmer Kennedy |
14.25 - 12.08 (+ 1 prob) * |
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"Max" (Aitkin) John William Maxwell Aitken |
(son of Lord Beaverbrook) 14.2 (+ |
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"Stan" "Bull" Percival Stanley Turner |
(UKadian) 14 (+ 2 prob & 8 dam) * |
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"Moose" Robert Carl Fumerton |
14 (+ 1 dam) |
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George Urquhart Hill |
(POW 25apr44) 14 - 12 (+ 3 prob & 9 dam) |
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"Rod" Roderick Illingworth Alpine Smith |
13.5 |
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"Butch" Robert Alexander Barton |
13.5 -11.5 (+ 4.5 prob & 9 dam) |
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"Johnny Kentowski" "Alex" John Alexander Kent |
(303 [Polish] sq FC during BoB) 13 (+ 2 prob & 2 dam, + 1 OTG) |
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"Keefe" George Clinton Keefer |
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"Foob" "the Terror of Rheine" David Charles Fairbanks |
(+ 1 V-1) Americanadian |
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"Johnny" "Jack" John Howard Turnbull |
12.5 -10 |
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"Chunky" "Don" "The Chunk" Donald Campbell Gordon |
(+ 5 OTG / 3 dam) 12 (+ 4 prob & 5 dam) |
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John MacKay |
(+ 1 in Korea) 11.2 (+ 2.5 dam & 30 dam OTG) |
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"Russ" Russell Bannock |
(+ 19.5 V-1s) |
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"Mac" "Johnny" John Frederick McElroy |
11 (+ 3 sh, 3 prob & 9 dam) |
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"Bert" "Shorty" Albert Ulrich Houle |
11 (+ 1 prob & 7 dam) |
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"Jimmy" * James Elmslie Walker |
(KIFA 25apr44) 11 - 9.5 (+6 prob, 12 dam) |
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"Timber" * Eric Norman Woods |
(MIA 16dec43) |
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"Dick" * Richard Joseph Audet |
(KIA 3mar45) |
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"Mitch" "Jack" John Davidson Mitchner |
10.5 (+2 prob & 3 dam) |
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Dallas Wilbur Schmidt |
10.5 |
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"Derck" Hamilton Charles Upton |
(UKadian) 10.5 - 9.58 * |
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"Willie the Kid" "Billy the Kid" * John William Williams |
(KIFA 31oct42, Beurling survived) 10 - 7 (+ 8 dam) |
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"Goose" Cyril "Les" * Leslie Cyril Gosling |
(KIA 19jul43) 9.5 (+ 3 dam.) |
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"Jimmy" * James Hamilton Ballantyne |
(KIA 8mar44) 9.25 (+ 5 probs & ? dam) |
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"Wilf" John Wilfred John Banks |
9 (+ 3 probs & 1dam) |
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"Don" Donald Aikins MacFadyen |
(+ 5 V-1's) 9 (+ 5 OTG /2 prob /17 dam) |
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Homer Powell Cochrane |
(Cocky's brother) 9 (+ 2 prob & 1 dam) * |
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George William Johnson |
9 (+ 4 dam) |
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"Jeff" Geoffrey Wilson Northcott |
9 (+ 1 prob & 8 dam) * |
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"Butch" "Alan" Frederick Alan Aikman |
(Paddy Finucane's last #2 9 (+ 1 prob & 3 dam) |
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"Jack" John Ronald Urwin-Mann |
(UKanadian) 9 - 8.66 (+ 4 probs & 1 dam) |
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"Bob" Robert Rutherford Smith |
(POW 10mar43) 9 - 7 (+ 1 prob) |
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* George Noel Keith |
(KIA 4aug43) 8.5 (+ 2 prob & 2 dam) |
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"Charlie" Hugh Charles Trainor |
(POW 19sep44) 8.5 (+ 1 prob) |
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"Doug" "JD" James Douglas Lindsay |
(+ 2 in Korea w/3 dam) 8.5 (+ 5 dam) |
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"Fred" Frederick Albert William Johnson Wilson |
8.5 - 6 (+ 4 OTG) |
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"Andy" Andrew Robert MacKenzie |
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"Red" William Lawrence Chisholm |
8 (+ 4 prob & 4 dam) |
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Garth Edwards Horricks |
8 (+ 1 prob & 6 dam) |
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"Jamie" David Robert Charles Jamieson |
8 (+ 1dam) |
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"Larry" Joseph Guillaume Laurent Robillard |
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"Joe" Dennis Rayne Dennis Schultz |
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* Bruce Johnston Ingalls |
(KIA 16jun44) 8 - 7.5 (+ 2 dam) * |
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Noel Karl Stansfeld |
8 - 7 |
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* John Blandford Latta |
(KIA 14jan41) 8 - 6 (+ 1 sh) |
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"Bob" "Jumbo" "Slim" Robert Davidson Grassick |
7.5 (+ 3 prob & 2 dam) |
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Deane * Harry Deane MacDonald |
(KIA 30nov43) 7.5 - 6.5 (+ 1 prob & 5 dam) |
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"Smudger" * James Duncan Smith |
(KIA 14apr41) 7.33 - 4 (+ 1prob, 1dam) |
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"Jimmy" "Cocky" * Arthur Charles Cochrane |
(KIA 31mar43) 7 (+ 4probs & 1dam) |
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"Cowboy" * Howard Peter Blatchford |
(KIA 3may43) |
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"Raffy" * Gordon Learmouth Raphael |
(+ 2 V-1's) KIA 10apr45) 7 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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"Al" "Harry" "Archie" Archibald Allan Harrington |
(Atlantic City & Ottawa, Ont. |
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Ian Roy MacLennan |
(POW 7jun44) 7 (+ 8 dam) |
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"Huey" Hugh Constant Godefroy |
(born in Java) 7 (+ 2 or 3 dam) * |
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"Sammy" "Dougall" Douglas Irving Hall |
7 (+ 2 dam) |
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"Red" James Dean Somerville |
7 (+ 1 dam) |
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* John Fylton Mackie |
(KIA 15apr41) 7 |
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* Thomas Lawrence Patterson |
(MIA 25apr41) 7 |
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"Chad" "the Angel" * Lloyd Vernon Chadburn |
(+ 1 E-boat) KIFA 13jun44) |
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Wilbert George Dodd |
6.5 (+ 3 prob & 4 dam) |
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"Ram" "Buck" "Bobby" "Bob" Robert Andrew Buckham |
6.5 (+ 3 dam) |
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"Mitch" Harry Thorne Mitchell |
6.5 (+ 1 dam) |
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* Joseph Jean Paul Sabourin |
(KIA 16sep42) 6.5 ( + 2 dam) |
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Harry James Dowding |
6.33 (+ 3dam) |
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"Shorty" * Donald George Reid |
(KIA 22jul42) 6.33 - 5.33 (+3prob & 4.5dam) |
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"Gordy" Gordon William Troke |
6.25 (+ 1 dam, + 2 OTG) |
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* George Patterson Christie |
(KiFA 5jul42) 6 (+3.5 prob & 1 dam) |
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"Bob" Robert Tremagne Pillsbury Davidson |
(2 each - Jap, German, Italian) 6 (+ 3 prob & 10 dam) |
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John William Neil |
(POW 23aug44) 6 (+ 2 prob & 6 dam) |
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"Wally" Walter Allan Grenfell Conrad |
6 (+ 2 prob & 1.5 dam) |
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"Skeets" Alfred Keith Ogilvie |
(POW 4jul41 - a lucky |
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"Algy" Lloyd Gilbert Schwab |
6 (+ 1 prob) * |
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"Sid" * Leslie Sydney Ford |
(KIA 4jun43) 6 (+ 2.5dam,+ 1 Destroyer) |
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Rodney Thirsk Phipps |
6 (+ 2dam, +10 OTG /1dam) |
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"Cam" Lorne Maxwell Cameron |
(POW 3jul44, escaped) 6 (+ 2dam) |
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"Tex" * Donald Mathew Pieri |
(Americanadian) POW 2may45 |
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"Don" Donald Harold Kimball |
6 (+ 1 dam) |
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"Jimmy" * James Henry Whalen |
(KIA 18apr44) 6 (+1 dam) * |
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"Pop" Charles Emanuel Edinger |
(Americanadian) 6 (+ 1 dam) |
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* George Pepper |
(KIFA 17nov42) 6 (+ 1 dam) |
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* Joseph Emil Paul Laricheliere |
(KIA 16aug40) 6 (all on 14/15aug40) |
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"Jimmy" "Johnny" * James Arthur Walker |
(KIA 8feb44) 6 |
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"Foss" Foss Henry Boulton |
(POW 13may43) |
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"Jim" * James Bernard Kerr |
(KIA 18jul44) 5.75 (+ 3 dam) |
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"Elmer" * Lionel Manley Gaunce |
(KIA 19nov41) 5.5 (+ 3 prob & 6 dam) |
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(Air Gunner) Peter Engbrecht |
(Ruskadian) |
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Hugh * Hugh Norman Donald Tamblyn |
(KIA 3apr41) 5.5 (+ 2 prob) |
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"Ernie" "PeeWee" Ernest Archibald McNab |
(got 1st RCAF kill of WW2) 5.5 (+1prob & 3.5dam) * |
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Graham David Robertson | 5.5 (+ 1 prob & 2.5 dam) |
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"Bob" Robert Kitchener Hayward |
(DSO, DFC) 5.5 (+0.25 prob & 4.5 dam) |
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Douglas Franklin Husband |
5.5 (+ 3 dam) |
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Frank Everett Jones | 5.5 (+ 3 dam) |
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"Jack" "JJ" John Joseph Boyle |
5.5 (+ 2dam, + 2 OTG) |
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David Edward Ness |
(+ 5 V-1's) 5.5 |
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"Howie" Howard Douglas Cleveland |
5.5 (+ 6.5 OTG) * |
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Guy Elwood Mott |
5.5 (+ 0.33 damaged) |
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"Blackie" David John Williams |
5.5 |
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"Junior" "Babe" * Harry Elmore Fenwick |
(KIA 21jun44, by friendly fire) 5.5 - 4.5 (+ 2.5 prob & 7 dam) |
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"Beryl" * John Grier Boyle |
(KIA 28sep40) 5.5 - 4.2 |
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"Dal" Blair Dalzell Russel |
5.5 - 4 (+ 2 prob & 3 dam) |
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"Don" Donald Robert Morrison |
(POW 8nov42) 5.33 (+ 4.5 prob & 5 dam) |
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"Danny" Daniel Edward Noonan |
5.25 - 4.25 |
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"Snooks" Hedley Joseph Everard |
(POW 25dec44) 5.2 (+ 2 probs & 3 dam) |
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"Cam" Gregory Donald Angus Tunnicliffe Cameron |
5.2 (+ 1 prob & 3 dam) |
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"Gordie" "GR" "Roy" "Rod" Gordon Roy McGregor |
(the oldest pilot in the BoB) |
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Frederick Thomas Murray |
(POW 22feb45) 5 (+ 1 prob & 2.1 dam) |
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George Leslie Sinclair |
5 (+ 1 prob & 2 dam) |
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Ronald Oldham |
5 (+ 5 dam) |
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"Chuck" "Maggie" Charles McLaughlin Magwood |
5 (+ 3.5 dam) |
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"Russ" * Russell Reginald Bouskill |
(KIA 2oct44) 5 (+ 3 dam) |
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"Bill" * William Watson Downer |
(KIFA 16apr44) 5 (+ 2 dam) |
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"Yank" "Bill" * William Henry Nelson |
(KIA 1nov40) 5 (+ 2 dam) |
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"Mac" * Mackenzie Reeves |
(KIA 28mar45) 5 (+ 2 dam) |
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Gordon Esli Gordon Lapp |
5 (+ 1 dam) |
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* Phillip Leslie Irving Archer |
(KIA 17jun43, Barbadian) 5 (+ 1 dam) |
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Ralph Isaac Edward Britten |
5 (+ 1 dam) |
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* Philip Marcel Charron |
(KIA 19nov44) 5 (+ 1 dam) |
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"Hiram" Forgrave Marshall Smith |
5 (+ 1 Balloon) |
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"Cobber" "Johnny" John Todd Caine |
5 (+15 OTG / 7dam) |
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"Mike" * Michael William Hamilton Askey |
(KIA 28oct43) 5 (+ 1 dam) |
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Walter Gordon Kirkwood |
5 (+ 1 OTG) |
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Harvey Alexander Crawford |
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"Bill" William Henry Isaac Atkinson |
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"Bright-Eyes" * William Ranson Breithaupt |
(KIA 12sep44) 5 |
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"Bob" Robert William Rouviere Day |
(Spitfires / Pacific theater) 5 |
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"Mac" Malcolm Grant Graham |
5 |
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"Art" Arthur George Lawrence |
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"Don" Donald John Sheppard |
(Corsairs / Pacific theater) 5 |
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"Jack" Jackson Eddie Sheppard |
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Albert Ivan Smith |
5 |
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"Stan" * Stanley Herbert Ross Cotterill |
(+ 4 V-1s) KIA 18oct44) 5 - 4 |
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"Milt" Milton Eardley Jowsey |
(POW 22feb45) 5 - 4 |
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"Sandy" Alexander George Borland |
5 - 0 |
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Omer "Trottle" "Joe" Joseph Auguste Omer Levesque |
(POW 12feb42) |
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"Denny" Clifford Denzel Woodrow Wilson (RCAF, IAF) |
(+ 3 against REAF in 1948) 2 (+ 1/4 prob & 3 damged) |
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Black "Jack" Joseph John Doyle (RCAF, IAF) |
(+ 3 & 2 dam. against REAF) 2 * |
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Because this page was getting too big, I moved the
Canadian Almost Aces & Honorable Mentions of WW2
HERE
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June 6th 1944 - D-Day. From dusk til dawn Johnny Johnson leads his Canadian Wing on low-level sweeps over the Normandy beaches in Support of the Allied invasion forces. Their freshly painted Invasion stripes clearly setting them apart (not always effectively) from their German counterparts |
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Honorary 'Canadian' Aces
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James Edgar Johnson (RAF) |
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Gentle "Don" Dominic Salvatore Gentile (USAAF) |
(RAF Eagle) 22 (+ 7 OTG) |
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Duane Willard Beeson (USAAF) |
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"Kid" * Ralph Kidd Hofer (USAAF) |
(KIA 2jul44) 15 (+ 14 OTG) |
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"Don" Donald James Mathew Blakeslee (USAAF) |
(RAF Eagle) 14.5 |
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"Pete" * Wilfrith Peter Green (RAF) |
(+ 13 V-1s) UK) KIFA 1mar45) 14 * |
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"Charlie" "Last-Trip" Charles Curnow Scherf (RAAF) |
(Australia) 13.5 (+10 OTG / 7dam) |
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Clyde Bennet East (USAAF) | 13 |
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"Weavy" Youngest Allied Ace of WW2 * Claude Weaver III |
(Oklahoma) KIA 28jan44 |
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"Mike" Thomas Paul Michael Cooper-Slipper (RAF) |
(immigrated to Canada after the war) 12 |
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"Chris" "WildMan" "Maggie" |
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Sheep - |
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"Crash" John Harvey Curry |
(Dallas, Texas) 7.33 (+ 2 probs & 4 dam) |
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Reade Franklin Tilley (USAAF) |
(Florida) RAF Eagle) 7 (0 w/121sq.) * |
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"Hank" Henry Paul Michael Zary |
(New York) |
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"Tony" * Roland Anthony Lee Knight |
(UK) MIA 27sep41 w/403sq.) 5.5 |
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Edward Lester Gimbel (USAAF) |
(Chicago) MIA 4mar43, |
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"Tex" John Frederick Barrick |
(Sweatwater, Texas) 17 sq. Burma) 5 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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* Paul Gilbert Johnson |
(Bethel, Connecticut) KIA 18jul44) 5 (+ 4 dam) |
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Murl "Jas" Clarence Murl Jasper |
(+ 3 V-1s) Ottawa, Kansas) 5 (+ 3 OTG) |
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"Lou" James Forrest Luma (USAAF) |
(Helena, Montana) |
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"Vic" Victor Nicholas Cabas (USAAF) |
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"Holly" Hollis Harry Hills (USN) |
(California) 5 |
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"Zulu" "Zuba" Douglas Griffith Morris |
(South Africanadian) 5 - 4 * |
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"Whitey" Harold Evans Dahl (SRAF) |
(5 during SCW - claimed 9) 0 |
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Because this page was getting too big, I moved the
"Most Honorable Mentions - Canadian Fighter Pilots & Air Gunners
of WW2"
HERE
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This incomplete list of "Honorary Canadian Aces" is made
up of Aces who were in the RCAF at some time during WW2, like the
Americans who went to Canada and enlisted because the US had not
yet entered the war (I've read that approximately 10% of the RCAF
enlistments when WW2 began were Americans). Johnny Johnson and Douglas
Bader however, commanded RAF "Canadian" Wings and were
given "Honorary Canadian" status by the Canadians who
served with them. In fact Johnson even wore a "Canada"
patch on the shoulder of his uniform. |
And another thing ...
If you have a photo that's better than one you see here,
or better yet, a photo you don't see here, how
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If you have corrections/suggestions, feel free to click that link and suggest
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And Special Thanks to Janet at the Canadian Forces Joint Imagery Unit
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| 242 Squadron - the Canadian Years | Hugh Halliday |
| The Tumbling Sky | Hugh Halliday |
| Woody - A Fighter Pilot's Album | Hugh Halliday |
| Typhoon & Tempest - the Canadian story | Hugh Halliday |
| The Royal Canadian Air Force at War 1939-1945 | Larry Milberry & Hugh Halliday |
| Canadian Wing Commanders | George Brown & Michael Lavigne |
| Kittyhawk Pilot | Michael Lavigne & J F Edwards |
| HERO - the Buzz Beurling Story | Brian Nolan |
| Black Crosses off My Wingtip | I F "Hap" Kennedy |
| All The Fine Young Eagles | David L. Bashow |
| Winged Victory | Johnnie Johnson & 'Laddie' Lucas |
| SPITFIRE - the Canadians | Robert Bracken |
| SPITFIRE II - the Canadians | Robert Bracken |
| Air Aces | Christopher Shores |
| Aces High | Christopher Shores & Clive Williams |
| Aces High Volume 2 | Christopher Shores |
| Those Other Eagles | Christopher Shores |
| They Shall Not Grow Old | Les Allison & Harry Hayward |
| Malta Spitfire | George Beurling & Leslie Roberts |
| Fighter Aces of the RAF | E.C.R. Baker |
| Lucky 13 | Hugh Godefroy |
| High Blue Battle | Dave McIntosh |
| Above and Beyond | Spencer Dunmore |
| The War In The Air | Gene Gurney |
| The Splendid Hundred | Arthur Bishop |
| Blue Skies | Bill Olmsted |
| Hell Island | Dan McCaffery |
| Spitfire Into Battle | Duncan Smith |
| the Royal Air Force 1939 - 1945 | Chaz Bowyer |
| We Few | Allan Simpson et al |
| We Happy Few | Lloyd Hunt et al |
| We Band of Brothers | Lloyd Hunt et al |
| the RCAF Overseas - Vols 1, 2 & 3 | RCAF Historians et al |
| Aces, Warriors & Wingmen | Wayne Ralph |
| Canadians In The Royal Air Force | Les Allison |
| We Were There - The RCAF and Others | Jean E. Portugal |
| 411 Squadron History | |
| 417 Squadron History | |
| 418 Squadron History | |
| 421 Squadron History | |
| 426 Squadron History | |
| 440 Squadron History | |
| 2nd Tactical Air Force | Christopher Shores |
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"Full Throttle" by Robert Bailey