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Canadian Fighter Pilots
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Please note that some of the pilots on this list have higher scores than are
posted here.
The information I have is limited & I can only list claims I am aware
of. If you know something
I don't appear to, you can smarten me up by clicking the link at the bottom
of this page ;^)
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"Les" * Leslie Albert Moore |
(KIA 25mar45, Canerican) 4.75 (+ 1.33 prob & 2 dam) |
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"Lucky" Karl Raymond Linton |
4.5 (+ 1 prob & 2 dam) |
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"Gary" John Garn Wright |
4.5 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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Maurice David Boyd | 4.5 (+ 2 damaged) |
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Ronald George Lake | 4.5 (+ 1 dam, + 1.3 dam OTG) |
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"Mac" Malcolm James Gordon |
4.5 (+ 1 damaged) |
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* David William Armstrong Harling | (KIA 1jan45) UKanadian) 4.5 (+ 1 damaged) |
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John Wilburn Garland | (POW) 4.5 |
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"Gord" "Gordie" "Ocky" Gordon Ockenden |
4.5 * |
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* Allan Benjamin Angus |
(KIA 16may40 ) 4.5 - 3.5 |
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"Art" Arthus Hazelton Sager |
4.25 (+ 4.5 dam, + 1 dam OTG) |
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"Bill" John William Patterson Draper |
(+ 6 V-1's) 4.25 |
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"Bill" William Alfred Olmsted |
(DSO, DFC & Bar 4 (+3 prob & 3 dam) |
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"Bill" William Richard Tew |
4 (+ 1 prob & 2.1 dam) |
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"Bunny" * Lewin Henry Curphey |
(KIA 13jan43) 4 (+ 1 prob & 2 dam) |
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"Bud" * Harlow Wilbur Bowker |
(KIA 2jul44) 4 (+1 prob & 1 dam, +1 OTG) |
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"Sandy" "Al" Alexander Foch Halcrow |
4 (+ 1 probable) |
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"Charlie" Charles William Fox |
(shot up Rommel) 4 (+ 5 dam) * |
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"Red" John Philip Wiseman Francis |
4 (+ 3 dam, + 2 OTG) |
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Lloyd Frederick Berryman | 4 (+ 3 damaged) |
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Richard Henry Cull | 4 (+ 3 damaged) |
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Neil Gillespie Russell | 4 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Tommy" Thomas Anthony Brannagan |
(Scotladian, POW 15aug44) 4 (+ 1 dam, + 2 OTG) * |
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"Bill" Robert Bruce Barker |
4 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Gordon Wonnacott |
4 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Jerry" Gerald Geoffrey Racine |
4 (+ 3 OTG) |
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"Peg" Warren Brock Peglar |
4 (+ 1 OTG / 3 dam) |
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"Ben" Benjamin Erwin Plumer |
4 (+ 1 OTG) |
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Arthur Reginald Carter | 4 |
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Clinton Warren Chown | 4 |
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Norman Ralph Fowlow | 4 |
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Norris Hart | 4 |
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Stanley John Kernaghan | 4 |
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Robert Howard Laurence | 4 |
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Donald Murdo MacKenzie | 4 |
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Wilmer Harry Reid | 4 |
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George Franklin Mercer | 4 - 3 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Pat" George Rudolph Patterson |
4 - 3 |
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Dean Dean Hugh Dover |
3.75 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Ed" Edward Poyntz Wood |
3.5 (+ 1 prob & 2 damaged) |
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"Hart" Hartland Ross Finley |
(1 destroyed & 3 dam OTG) 3.5 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Gord" Gordon Henry Taylor Farquharson |
3.2 (+ 2 prob & 4 dam) |
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"Duke" Charles Ian Rose Arthur |
3.66 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Eddie" * Edwin Herbert Glazebrook |
(KiFA 31oct42, Beurling survived)) 3.5 (+ 1 prob & 6.5 dam) |
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John Maxwell Portz | 3.5 (+ 1 prob & 4 dam) |
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Donald Wesley Rathwell | 3.5 (+ 1 prob & 3 dam) |
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James David Sharples | (+ 2 OTG) 3.5 (+ 1 prob & 2 dam) |
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"Ormy" Ian Campbell Ormston |
3.5 (+ 1 probable) |
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James Robert Feir Johnson | (+ 2 dam OTW) 3.5 (+ 0.5 prob & 1 dam) |
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(Air Gunner) Armstrong Lyon |
3.5 (+ 2 damaged) |
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(Air Gunner) Clarence Bentley Sutherland |
3.5 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Len" Leonard Elmer Fitchett |
( + 1 Sea Fury in Middle East - |
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Jack Cameron Copeland | 3.5 |
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(Air Gunner) Gordon Clarke Gillanders |
3.5 |
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"Bill" William James Myers |
3.5 |
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John Frederick Hart Williams | 3.5 |
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James Douglas Orr | 3.25 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Jerry" * Jerrold Alpine Smith |
(KIA 10aug42) 3.2 (+ 1.5 probs & 4 dam) |
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Wilfred David Brown | 3 (+ 2 probables) * * |
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Stanley Malcolm McClarty | 3 (+ 1 prob & 2 dam) |
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Rooney Alexander Hodgins | 3 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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Jack Bamford | 3 (+ 1 probable) |
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Joseph Albert Lawless Johnson | 3 (+ 1 probable) |
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Edgar Andrew Ker | 3 (+ "many probs & dam") |
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Gordon Mitchell Smith | 3 (+ 4 damaged) |
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"Jackie" John Arthur Rae |
3 (+ 3 damaged) |
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Richard James Bennell | 3 (+ 2 damaged) |
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John Angus Hatch | 3 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Sandy" Robert Cowan McRoberts |
3 (+ 2 damaged) |
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William Sawers | 3 (+ 2 damaged) |
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Kenneth Arthur Boomer | (the only Canadian with |
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"Dinny" Walter Gilbert Dinsdale |
(got 1st Mistel, (an Me109/Ju88) |
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"Freddie" Frederick Ernest Green |
3 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Donald MacDonald | 3 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Russell William Orr | 3 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Bob" Robert George Middlemiss |
3 (+ "more damaged") |
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Merlin Harold Sims | (+ 1 V-1) 3 (+ 5 OTG / 2 prob ) |
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Charles Cecil Moran | 3 (+ 1 OTG) |
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Harry V. Boyle | 3 |
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Thomas Henry Cameron | 3 |
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"Art" Arthur C. Coles |
3 |
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Warren Alvin Duffy | 3 |
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"Hugh" Alexander Hugh Fraser |
3 |
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James Watt Fullerton | 3 |
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Richard Francis Hatton | 3 |
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Elgin Gerald Ireland | 3 |
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Herbert Ebsworthy Jones | 3 |
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Ian Edward MacTavish | 3 |
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Ian Anderson March | 3 |
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(Air Gunner) Thomas Oswald McIlquham |
3 |
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Raymond Joseph O'Mara | 3 |
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"Rosy" * Arnold Walter Roseland |
(KIA 13july44) 3 |
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Michael Rico Sharun | 3 |
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"Lyle" * Clarence Lyell Shaver |
(KIA 2mar45) 3 |
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"Dick" Richard Martin Stayner |
3 |
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William Harry Stephenson | 3 |
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William North Stowe | 3 |
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Alvin Thomas Williams | 3 |
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* Otto John Peterson | (KIA 27sep40) 3 - ? |
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"Bernie" Bernardo Noel De Larminat |
[Argentinian] 3 - 1 (+ 2 damaged ) * |
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Robert Dulmage Phillip | 2.75 (+ 6 damaged) |
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William Francis Cook | 2.75 (+ 2 damaged) |
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Phillip Valentine King Tripe | 2.5 (+ 2 probs & 3 damaged) |
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Norman Alexander Keene | 2.5 (+ 1 prob & 2 damaged) |
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Thomas Joseph De Courcy | 2.5 (+ 3 dam, + 2 dam OTG) |
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"Bev" Beverly Evans Christmas |
(ret 1973 - last BoB vet in RCAF) 2.5 (+ 1.3 damaged) |
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William Wood Lindsay Brown | 2.5 |
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Hugh Harold Stephen Cush | 2.5 |
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William Haig Martyn | 2.33 |
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"Duke" Bruce Warren |
(Doug's twin brother) 2.25 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Andrew Lloyd Sinclair | 2.2 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Tommy" Thurne Parks |
2 (+ 2 probs & 2 dams) |
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Roy Daryl Thomas | (+ 1 V-1) 2 (+ 1 prob & 3 dams) |
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Massey Williamson Beveridge | 2 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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"Bitsy" Duncan Marshall Grant |
2 (+ 1 probable) |
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Harold Willard McLeod | 2 (+ 1 probable) |
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William Arnold Prest | 2 (+ 4 damaged) |
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"Neil" * Norman Neil Campbell |
(KIA 17oct40) 2 (+ 2 damaged) |
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Henry Willesly Harrison | 2 (+ 2 damaged) * |
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Alistair Angus Smith | 2 (+ 2 damaged) |
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Ross Garstang Gray |
(+ 1 or 2 V-1s) 2 (+1 dam, + 8 OTG / 11 dam ) |
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"Fred" Frederick Frank Lambert |
2 (+ 1 dam, + 1 OTG / 1 dam) |
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Leonard Nelson Watt | 2 (+ 1 dam, + 2 OTG) |
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"Len" "Black Bart" "Bart" Leonard Lawrence Bartley |
2 (+ 1 damaged) * * |
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William Lyle Black | 2 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Donald Reginald Cuthbertson | 2 (+ 1 damaged) |
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(Air Gunner) Wayne Thomas Merrick |
2 (+ 1 damaged) |
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R. L. Snowdon | 2 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Topsy" David Lloyd George Turvey |
2 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Richard Kenneth Trumley | 2 (+ 0.5 damaged) |
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Thomas Ross Wheler | 2 (+ 0.2 damaged) |
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* Vincent Kenneth Moody | (Americanadian, KIA 12jun44) 2 (+ "many' damaged) |
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James Edwin Collier | 2 (+ ? damaged) |
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Philip Roy Brook | (+ 3 V-1's) 2 (+ 3 OTG / 3 dam) |
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David Blake Dack |
2 (+ 3 OTG) |
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Donald Burke Freeman | 2 (+ 6 damaged OTG) |
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"Tom" Thomas Harvey Hoare |
(+ 3 V-1's) 2 |
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George Norman Miller | 2 + |
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Ernest Baker | 2 |
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George Whitehead Burroughs | 2 |
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Alan Theophilus Carlson | 2 |
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Edward Frederick Cole | 2 |
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Ross Macham Gourley Currie | 2 |
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N. R. D. Dick | 2 * |
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Donald Wallace Goodwin | 2 |
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Frank Edward William Hanton | 2 |
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"Russ" (Air Gunner) Russell Harling |
2 |
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Murray Carslaw Hyslop | 2 |
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Len Leonard J. Kearney |
2 |
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Ernest James Keefe | 2 |
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Oscar Harcourt Levere | 2 |
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"Ossie" Oscar Mahaffy Linton |
2 |
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Harold Stanley Lisson | 2 |
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"Don" Donald Charles Stirling MacDonald |
2 |
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"Mac" "Bill" William R. McRae |
2 * * |
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Reginald Morris | 2 |
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Frederick Wallace Mossing | 2 |
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Norman John Pearce | 2 |
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Joseph Marie Guy Plamondon | 2 |
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James Bernard Prendergast | 2 |
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"Pip" Lloyd Woodrow Powell |
2 |
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John B. Rainville | 2 |
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Arthur Stuart Ross | 2 |
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Raymond John Frederick Sherk | 2 |
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Duncan Sinclair | 2 |
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Donald Allan Blake Smiley | 2 |
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Francis Stewart Sorge | 2 |
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Edward Arthur Thomas Taylor | 2 |
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Thomas William Watson | 2 |
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"Hal" * Harold Freeman |
2 - |
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"Trapper" Robert Douglas Bowen |
1.83 (+ 0.5 prob & 2 dam) |
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* James Whitham | (KIA 28aug42) 1.5 (+ 1 prob & 1.5 dam) |
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"Chuck" * Charles B. Ramsay |
(KIA 11jul42) 1.5 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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Malcom John Malcom Robb |
1.5 (+ 1 probable) |
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Stanley Cyril Cosburn | 1.5 (+ 5 dam) |
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"Kelly" Roy Henry Walker |
1.5 (+ 3 damaged) |
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"Dick" Richard Attwill Ellis |
1.5 (+ 2.5 dam) |
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Colin John Evans |
(+ 7.5 V-1's) 1.5 (+ 1 dam) |
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"Smokey" Charles Herbert Stover |
1.5 (+ 1 dam) |
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"Jeep" Eugene Lawrence Neal |
1.5 (+ ?) |
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"Freddy" Frederick William Evans |
1.5 |
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William Eber Stewart | (Americanadian) 1.5 |
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"Lou" Lloyd Alfred John Plummer |
1.5 - |
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"Snake" "Rick" Gordon George Rattle |
1.5 - |
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"Duke" Douglas Warren |
(the other "Duke" Warren) 1.25 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Lewis Woloschuk | 1.25 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Bud" Dennis Graland Malloy |
1.17 (+ 1 prob & 1.5 dam) |
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"Ed" Edwin A. Harper |
1 (+ 3 probs) |
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"Johnny" Frederick John Sherlock |
1 (+ 1 prob & 3 dam) |
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Paul Yettvart Davoud | (Americanadian) 1 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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William Mortimer Foster | 1 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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Francis Morris Sawyer | (+ 1 V-1) 1 (+ 1 probable) |
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George Mallilieu Bower | 1 (+ 1 probable) |
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Harlan Perry Fuller | 1 (+ 1 probable) |
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Robert Lundy Fullerton | 1 (+ 1 probable) |
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Bruce Evans Innes | 1 (+0.5 prob / 2.5 dam, + 2 OTG) |
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"Norm" Norman Hobson Bretz |
1 (+ 3 damaged) |
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"Al" Alvin Ernest Harley |
1 (+ 3 damaged) |
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"Jimmy" James Dickie Hall |
1 (+ 2 damaged) |
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John Terrence McCutcheon | 1 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Bill" William Roland Weeks |
1 (+ 2 damaged) * |
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Eric Alexander Bland | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Rodney Syoboda Croome | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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"Cut" Robert James Cutting |
1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Robert Edwards | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Bruce Munro MacKenzie | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Donald James McKinney McConnell | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Rex Howard Probert | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Larry Seath | 1 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Ken Kenneth Stephen Sleep |
1 (+ 0.5 damaged) |
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David Esplin Forsyth |
(+ 4 V-1's) Americanadian) 1 (+ 3 OTG) |
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"Jerry" Gerald Daniel Billing |
1 |
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(Air Gunner) G. D. Burton |
1 |
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(Air Gunner) John William Cumbers |
1 |
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Martin Anthony Cybulski [Ross] | 1 |
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Dominic Joseph Dewan | 1 |
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"Don" Donald Charles Dougall |
1 |
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Paul Lewis Gibbs | 1 |
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"Gil" Donald Archibald Gillis |
1 |
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Fowler Morgan Gobeil | (RCAF's 1st Victory of WW2 |
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Raymond Stanley Harrison | 1 |
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John W. Hicks | 1 |
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Frederick Arthur Johnson | 1 |
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"Jimmy" (Air Gunner) Henry James Forster Kerr |
(later became a pilot) 1 |
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Joseph Kristen | 1 |
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John Ashe Lowndes | 1 |
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"Jack" John Peppiatt Lumsden |
1 |
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Kenneth MacBain | 1 |
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"Blackie" Brian MacConnell |
1 |
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Warren Martin Middleton | 1 |
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Ken Morgan | 1 |
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John Alexander Morton | 1 |
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(Air Gunner) H. W. Robinson |
1 |
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Frank Packard | 1 |
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Charles Alexander Pope | 1 |
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(Air Gunner) Edward Austin Snider |
1 |
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(Air Gunner) Bob Smith |
1 |
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"Buzz" Noel John Ogilvie |
1 - 0.5 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Keith Louis Bate Hodson | 0.5 (+ 3 damaged) |
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Vaughan Bowerman Corbett | 0.5 (+ 1+ damaged) |
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"Larry" Lawrence Esmond Spurr |
(+ 1 MiG in Korea) 0.5 (+ 0.5 damaged) |
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(Air Gunner) Sinclair Holmes Nutting |
0.5 |
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Harold Joseph Nixon | 0.5 |
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"Bob" Robert Ellis Evan Morrow |
0.17 (+ 1 prob & 5 damaged) |
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Stuart Newton May |
(+ 6 - 5 V-1's (418 Sq.) 0 |
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Peter Stratharn Leggat |
(+ 5 V-1's) 0 |
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James Davidson Wright |
(+ 5 V-1's) 0 |
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"Ernie" Ernest Arthur Glover |
(3 , + 2 dam in Korea) 0 |
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"Peter 'Pete' Logan" Joseph Pierre Auguste Lecoq |
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"Hammy" Last Canadian to die in WW2 ? * Robert Hampton Gray |
. He
was KIA 9aug45 |
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Factory Fresh Spitfire Mk IXe's make their way to the forward airfields of Normandy carrying kegs of beer. The English brewery of Heneger and Constable donated fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy, and someone (Johnny Johnson himself? Maybe but probably some beer-lovin Canuck in his wing, like Buck McNair ;^) came up with the idea of strapping the beer kegs to the underwings of the Spitfires that were being shipped to the forward airfields. The troops loved the freshly delivered, cold beer, but as with all good things, the British Ministry of Revenue and Excise stepped in and notified the brewery that it was in violation of the law in that it was exporting beer without paying the taxes on it. And that was the end of that. Read a short, first-hand account by Lloyd Berryman about a beer run he was on, here |
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Honorary Canadian 'Almost Aces'
& Most Honorable Mentions
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Bill William D. Heier |
4 (+ 3 probables |
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"Danny" John Danforth Browne |
4 (+ 2 damaged) |
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"Frosty" Forrest Bee Young |
4 (+ 1 damaged) |
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Arthur Ferrand Nitz | 4 - |
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Oliver Charles Kallio | (Michigan) 4 - 2 |
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(Air Gunner) George Eric Mitchell |
(California) 2 (+ 1 prob & 1 dam) |
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Lloyd Duncan Thomas | (Detroit) 2 (+ "many" OTG) |
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Dick Debert | (Boston) 2 |
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William C. Muschett | (Jamaica) 2 |
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"Joe" John D. McFarlane |
1.5 (+ 1 dam,+ 2 OTG) |
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"Lefty" George Whitman |
(+ 14 V-1's) 1 |
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"Smitty" Randolph Charles Carlyle Smith |
(Detroit) 1 |
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"Sid" Sidney Platt Seid |
(+ 4 V-1's) 0 (+ 7 OTG / 7 dam) |
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This incomplete list of "Honorary Canadian Almost Aces &
Honorable Mentions" is made up of guys 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). |
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