Bomber Command Museum of Canada Archives

Bomber Command Aircrew Chronicles

Author	Title
Currie, Donald M.	635 - Don Currie tells about being a navigator on his Pathfinder squadron
Fauquier, Johnny	6 Group in Action by Johnny Fauquier - A 1945 speech to the Empire Club of Canada
Parker, Winston	A Night Out with Bomber Command - Searchlights, Watching Friends Die, and Ice
BCMC	Aalborg, Karl - The first name on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall
Smith, F/O Ray	Air Cadet over the Reich - From 'Canadian Air Cadet' Nov. 1944
Milberry, Larry	Air Gunner Stories - From 'Sixty Years' by Larry Milberry
RAF Museum	Alkemade, F/S Nicholas - Falling from 18,000 Feet without a Parachute
Lewis-Watts, Noel	An Airman's Love Story - Love songs from a missing bomb-aimer
BCMC	An Icing Incident - A Report by 428 Sqn pilot F/O R. LaTurner
Austin, Jeff	Austinplein - 429 Squadron Halifax LK802 -A Sacrifice Honoured

English, Joe	Back from Munich - Nanton's 625 Squadron Lancaster pilot recalls a close call
Barber, Frank	Barber, Joseph - The forty-three year old air gunner of 100 Squadron
Birrell, Dave	BAZ - The Biography of S/L Ian Bazalgette VC (210 pages)
BCMC	Bazalgette, Ian - Alberta's WW II Victoria Cross recipient
BCMC	Bellamy, Jack - A 428 Squadron Prisoner of War trades his boots for a Germon guard's pistol
Bercuson, David	Bercuson, Bernard - The story of 433 Squadron Halifax MZ899
BCMC	"Best of Luck Boys" - Ditching in the North Sea
BCMC	Blenkinsop, Edward 'Teddy' - The tragic story of a 405 Sqn pilot shot down on the Montzen Raid
BCMC	Bolduc, P/O Willard DFC - An Indigenous RCAF Air Gunner
Peden, Murray	Bomber Operations - The Strain of Operational Flying with Bomber Command
Brown, Ken	Brown, Ken - A speech given at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dams Raid

BCMC	Cameron, Douglas DFM - Baz's rear gunner flew over 100 ops and with two VC pilots
Simonsen, Clarence	Carter, Jack - He flew 428 Sqn Lancaster KB760 'NA-P'
South, Hugh	Cinders of the Clouds - The Story of 619 Squadron Lancaster LL783
BCMC	Clothier, Robert - 'Relic' of the Beachcombers was a Halifax bomber pilot
Currie, Donald M.	Currie, Don - The training and Pathfinder Force operations of an RCAF Navigator
BCMC	Daniel, 'Danny' - This RCAF bomb-aimer flew 50 ops with 617 Sqn
BCMC	Davidson, Barry - Actor James Garner played Barry ('The Scrounger') in the Great Escape movie
BCMC	Delivering the Grand Slam - F/O Martin' recollections
Dunlop, James	Dunlop, F/Sg. James - A letter to be opened if he Failed to Return
Veitch, Doug	Dunwoodie's Crew - The Final Flight of 408 Sqn Halifax NP781
Heather, Jim	Earnshaw, Ken - John Hopgood's navigator on the Dams Raid
Lockhart, Greg	Ekelund, John - From Twin Butte to 149 Sqn to Ile d'Yeu
BCMC	Engbrecht & Gillanders - The RCAF's top air gunner team
English, Joe	English, Joe - Nanton's Lancaster pilot

BCMC	Fauquier, Johnny DSO and Two Bars DFC - Canada's greatest bomber pilot
BCMC	Fetherston, Thomas - 'A Name in the Sand' -A Nanton grocer's son's RCAF bracelet is returned
Cameron, Bill	Franco, Don - An Orkney Island Miracle (Christmas in a Lighthouse)
BCMC	Fraser, John & 'Hoppy' - A Dams Raid story
BCMC	Fulton, John DSO, DFC, AFC - 419 Squadron's First C/O
Kemp, Hugh	Fulton, John DSO, DFC, AFC - A 1944 article about 419 Squadron's first 'Mooseman'
Giacomelli, Dave	Giacomelli, Fritz - An Italian-Canadian's service with 149 and 419 squadrons
Gildea, J.P.	Gildea, J.P. - Sgt. Gildea's (115 Sqn) Diary
Nichols, Dominic	Habgood, Freddie's Bracelet - Returning a wartime bracelet to a family
Hawkes, Doug	Hawkes, Doug - 419 Sqn Pilot and Prisoner of War
BCMC	Hume, Bill DFM - 'Bunny' Clayton's rear gunner on 617 Squadron
BCMC	Hutcheon, Robert 408 Sqn - Chronicle includes all 'Zekes' navigation maps
Hymers, Al	Hymers, Al - The sole survivor of Lancaster LM213

Platana, Terry	In Honour of my Father - F/O Daniel Platana 425 Sqn 156 Sqn PFF
BCMC	Jenkins, Ron 434 Squadron - Halifax MK III Pilot's Course Notes
Simonsen, Clarence	Jenkins, Ron, and Lady Orchid - Ron's wartime Lancaster flies today within FM213
Birrell, Dave	Johnny - The Biography of Johnny Fauquier DSO and 2 BARS DFC (224 pages)
Travers, Terri	Keys, Jim - An American in the RCAF interviewed by his grandaughter
BCMC	Kinney, John - A Nanton boy was a 'Sole Survivor'
Thomson, Rick	Lancaster KB834 - The Last Mission of a 434 RCAF Lancaster
Hinks, Ian	Lancaster W4270 - W/O II Thomas Warne and Crew
BCMC	Lane, Reg - The legendary Canadian pathfinder pilot
Black, Cliff	Lardie, Father - A Padre over the Ruhr
BCMC	Lardie, Father John Philip - The Chaplain on the motorcycle
BCMC	Lesesne, Chuck - A 431 Squadron pilot's sacrifice
BCMC	Love, Jim - A Canadian 207 Squadron navigator describes the Peenemunde Raid

BCMC	Mahaddie, Hamish - A horsethief for the Pathfinders
Birrell, Dave	McCarthy, Big Joe - The RCAF's American Dambuster (298 pages)
BCMC	Me 262 Fighter Attack - Canadian Bombers swarmed by Luftwaffe jets
BCMC	Mould, David - An RCAF air-gunner and his memories in his art
BCMC	Mynarski, Andrew - 419 Squadron's Victoria Cross recipient
Nelson, Frank	Nelson, Frank - A 138 page album that includes a tour with 408 Sqn
BCMC	Newson, W.F.M. 'Bill' DSO DFC and Bar - 11 BR Escorting Convoys, 405, 408, 431 Sqns
Watts, Ron	No Cowards Fly the Hump in Stearmans - A post BCATP adventure in India and China
English, Joe	Operation Manna - The best raid of the war
BCMC	Operation Taxable - 617 Squadron and the D-Day Spoof

Thomas, Elaine	Parker, Winston Churchill - Alberta Cowboy, Air-Gunner, Prisoner of War, Rancher
BCMC	Parker, Winston's Handkerchief - A painting completed at Stalag VIIIB
BCMC	Parker, Winston's Photo Album - Taken with a secret camera at Stalag VIIIB
BCMC	Patterson, Donald - An #3 SFTS instructor who became a 426 Squadron Flight Commander
Pavle, John	Pavle, John - A 434 Sqn Groundcrew's Photo Album
BCMC	Peden, Murray - Author of 'A Thousand Shall Fall'
Birrell, Dave	People and Planes - Stories from the Bomber Command Museum of Canada (220 pages)
Perry, Richard P.	Perry, F/L Richard P. 218 Sqn - Excerpts from a 218 Squadron airman's diary
Petrie, D.J.	Petrie, F/Lt. Douglas - Doug flew our museum's Anson #7481
LaGacé, Pierre	Phelen, W/C William Gerald - A Pilot with 425 and 420 Sqns
BCMC	Pigeon, Percy - An RCAF Wireless Op. with 97 and 617 Sqns
BCMC	Prince, Albert Stanley - The first of the ten-thousand Canadians to die with Bomber Command
Lavallée, Norma	Proudlock, Thomas Harold - A Tribute to a 426 Sqn Bomb Aimer

BCMC	RAF Sleap - A Canadian C/O for an RAF Operational Training Unit
Renton, Doug	Renton, Doug - An amazing record of forty-eight operations with 405 squadron
BCMC	Robertson, Stewart DFC - A Canadian bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force
Anderson, George	Roman, Rudy 408 Sqn - The War Crimes Tribunal convicts a German for shooting Rudy Roman
Routledge, Joe	Routledge, Joe - A 156 Sqn PFF bomb aimer's story from Lake Louise
Poissand, David	Sandy's Doll - The wartime mascot and friend of F/Lt. Richard 'Sandy' Sanderson
Smith, Arnold	Smith, F/O Arnold's Photo Album - A taste of 100 Group Operations with 192 Sqn
Florence, Elinor	Sutherland, Fred - The Last Canadian Dambuster
BCMC	Sutherland, Larry - A Canadian in 207 Sqn who shot down 7 Fighters

BCMC	Taerum, Harlo 'Terry' - W/C Guy Gibson's navigator from Milo, Alberta
Paton, Arch	The First Op - A successful ditching and rescue from the North Sea
Morley, Paul	The Promise - A Hamilton Connection to the Dambusters (Frank Garbas and Albert Garshowitz)
Currie, Donald M.	The Real Story about the Bouncing Bomb - Don Currie's version
Haliday, Jeremy	Thornhill, Martin Arthur - A detailed Memorial to Martin Thornhill 405 Sqn, by his cousin
BCMC	Tweddle, Douglas - Sinking the Battleship Tirpitz with Tallboys
Gardiner, George	Visiting the Ruhr - A Letter home to the Petrolia Newspaper
BCMC	Wall, Ray - A 408 Squadron POW's illustrated story
BCMC	Ward, James Allen VC - 'Jimmy' crawled across the wing to extinguish an engine fire
Weaver, Larry	Weaver, Sylvan - A 487 Sqn Ventura wireless-operator
Wright, Ken	When Nature Calls - On a combat operation in a Bomber Command aircraft
BCMC	White, F/Lt William - An Artist in the RCAF
Witwer, Howard	Witwer, Howard - A 419 Squadron pilot, the only survivor of a mid-air collision of two Lancasters

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