Canadian Aces of WW2
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I need some with this ... Unnamed Canadian Fighter Pilot |
interesting story ... ??? |
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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 |
(UKanadian, 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 |
(UKanadian) 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 probs & 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 probs & 9 dam) |
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"Johnny Kentowski" "Alex" John Alexander Kent |
(303 [Polish] sq FC during BoB) 13 (+ 2 probs & 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 |
(+ 3 in the Middle East) * 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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"Jack" John Ronald Urwin-Mann |
(UKanadian) 10.66-8.66 (+ 2 probs & 3 dam) |
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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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"Willie 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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"Bob" Robert Rutherford Smith |
(POW 10mar43) 9 - 7 (+ 1 prob) |
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Joe Joseph Richard Kilner |
(UKanadian) 9 - 3.83 |
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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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"Joe" Dennis Rayne Dennis Schultz |
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* Bruce Johnston Ingalls |
(KIA 16jun44) 8 - 7.5 (+ 2 dam) * |
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"Tom" * Thomas Lawrence Patterson |
(MIA 25apr41) 8 - 7 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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Noel Karl Stansfeld |
8 - 7 |
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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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"Cowboy" * Howard Peter Blatchford |
(KIA 3may43 |
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"Smudger" * James Duncan Smith |
(KIA 14apr41) 7.33 - 4 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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"Jimmy" "Cocky" * Arthur Charles Cochrane |
(KIA 31mar43) 7 (+ 4 probs & 1 dam) |
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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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"Larry" Joseph Guillaume Laurent Robillard |
7 (+ 1 damaged) |
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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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Wilbert George Dodd |
( may be 4 probs & 5 dams) 7 - 6.57 (+ 3 probs & 4 dams) |
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"Chad" "the Angel" * Lloyd Vernon Chadburn |
(+ 1 E-boat) KIFA 13jun44) |
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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 (+ 3 dam) |
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* John Blandford Latta |
(KIA 14jan41) 6.33 |
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"Shorty" * Donald George Reid |
(KIA 22jul42) 6.33 - 5.33 (+3 prob & 4.5 dam) |
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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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"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" (from LG) Lloyd Gilbert Schwab |
6 (+ 1 prob) * |
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"Sid" * Leslie Sydney Ford |
(KIA 4jun43) 6 (+ 2.5 dam, + 1 Destroyer) |
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Rodney Thirsk Phipps |
6 (+ 2 dam, +10 OTG /1 dam) |
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"Cam" Lorne Maxwell Cameron |
(POW 3jul44, escaped) 6 (+ 2 dam) |
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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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"Jack" John William Neil |
(POW 23aug44) 6 - 5 (+ 3 - 2 probs & 6 dam) |
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"Jim" * James Bernard Kerr |
(KIA 18jul44) 5.75 (+ 3 dam) |
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"Beryl" * John Greer Boyle |
(KIA 28sep40) 5.58 |
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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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"Robbie" Graham David Robertson |
5.5 (+ 1 prob & 2.5 dam) |
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"De Bub" Robert Kitchener Hayward |
(DSO, DFC) 5.5 (+0.25 prob & 4.5 dam) |
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"Hubby" Douglas Franklin Husband |
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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"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 |
(D 18jan10) 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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"Tom""Freddy" 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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Changed name to Robert Malcolm Dunsford Albert Ivan Smith |
5 (+ 4 damaged) |
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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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"Gord" 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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"Bill" William Henry Isaac Atkinson |
(Hellcat Night Fighters / Pacific - |
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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 |
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"Art" Arthur George Lawrence |
5 |
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"Don" Donald John Sheppard |
(Corsairs / Pacific theater) 5 |
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"Jack" Jackson Eddie Sheppard |
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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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Harvey Alexander Crawford |
5 - 2.5 (+ 2 damaged - unconf.) |
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"Sandy" Alexander George Borland |
5 - 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Omer "Trottle" "Joe" Joseph Auguste Omer Levesque |
(POW 12feb42) |
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"Denny" Clifford Denzel Woodrow Wilson |
(+ 3 against REAF in 1948) 2 (+ 1/4 prob & 3 damaged) |
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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
Almost Aces & Honorable Mentions 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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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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"Stonewall" Clyde Bennet East (USAAF) |
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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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Wendel John August Nelson | 12 - 2 |
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"Deryk" Hamilton Charles Upton |
(UKanadian) 10.5 - 9.58 * |
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"Chris" "WildMan" "Maggie" |
(Black
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 |
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"Holly" Hollis Harry Hills (USN) |
(California) 5 (+ 1 damaged, + 3 OTG) |
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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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Michael Thomas Judd | (C/O of 143 Wing May-Oct'44) 5 - 4 (+3 dams & 1 dam OTG) |
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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 (maybe) - claimed 9) 0 |
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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 hadn't entered the war yet (I've read that approximately 10% of the RCAF
enlistments when WW2 started 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. What's a Canerican? Well, it's like an Americanadian except a Canerican was born in Canada and moved to the States & an Americanadian was born in the US and moved to Canada ... may or may not be an actual dual citizen. I made up these words (although I probably was not the 1st to do so) for people like myself who feel equally at home in either country. Americanadians & Canericans know who they are) Also, in some cases I don't know the details of the claims (which are listed here on this page thus: destroyed, probably destroyed, damaged, then OTG stats if any) so I wouldn't fight any duels to the death over these numbers since there's just no way to be 100% sure. After all, I wasn't there. BUT, you can bet your @ss that I'm digging up more details every day! [click here to see a list of RAF & RCAF abbreviations / acronyms / slang] |
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
about
!?!
If you have corrections/suggestions, feel free to click that link and suggest
away.
THANKS
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Cool Related Sites
the Canadian Fighter Pilot & Air Gunner's Museum
Magnus' Canadian Air Aces
the Aircrew Remembrance Society
the Maple
Leaf Legacy Project
Robert Buckles' site is no longer up.
If the owners of the content would
like
it up again, I would be happy to post it here
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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 |
| Air Aces | Christopher Shores |
| Aces High | Christopher Shores & Clive Williams |
| Aces High Volume 2 | Christopher Shores |
| Those Other Eagles | Christopher Shores |
| 2nd Tactical Air Force | Christopher Shores |
| Canadian Wing Commanders | George Brown & Michael Lavigne |
| Kittyhawk Pilot | Michael Lavigne & J F Edwards |
| Malta Spitfire | George Beurling & Leslie Roberts |
| 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 |
| They Shall Not Grow Old | Les Allison & Harry Hayward |
| Fighter Aces of the RAF | E. C. R. Baker |
| Lucky 13 | Hugh Godefroy |
| High Blue Battle | Dave McIntosh |
| Terror in the Starboard Seat | Dave McIntosh |
| Above and Beyond | Spencer Dunmore |
| The War In The Air | Gene Gurney |
| The Splendid Hundred | Arthur Bishop |
| Winged Combat | 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 City of North York Squadron History | |
| 417 Squadron History | |
| 418 Squadron History | |
| 421 Squadron History | |
| 426 Squadron History | |
| 440 Squadron History | |
| 441 Fighter Squadron | Larry Milberry |
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"Full Throttle" by Robert Bailey
