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Canada's Air War References updated 21/03/21 Bibliography Abbreviations used in Text 5th Year - The R.C.A.F. Overseas - The Fifth Year 6th Year - The R.C.A.F. Overseas - The Sixth Year 400 SH 50 - 400 Squadron - The First Half Century 400 SH OWTS - On Watch to Strike - History of 400 (City of Toronto) Squadron 404 SH - 404 Squadron History 405 SH - 405 Squadron History 407 SH - 407 Squadron History 408 SH - 408 Squadron History 411 SH - 411 Squadron History 416 SH - 416 Squadron History 417 SH - 417 Squadron History 418 SH - 418 Squadron History 419 SH - The Moose Squadron, 1941-45, The War Years of 419 Squadron 421 SH - 421 Squadron History 424 SH - 424 Squadron History 426 SH - 426 Squadron History 434 SH - 434 Squadron History 440 SH - 440 Squadron History 442 SH - 442 Squadron History Awards - RCAF Personnel - Honours And Awards - 1939-1949, H.A. Halliday BC War Diaries - Bomberwww.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca Command War Diaries, M. Middlebrook and C. Everitt BCL - Bomber Command Losses, W.R. Chorley BLib - Burma Liberators, Gwynne-Timothy, J.R.W. CAHS Journal - Canadian Aviation Historical Society Journal CCL - Coastal Command Losses, R. McNeill CCMA - Chronology of Canadian Military Aviation, H.A. Halliday CJCA headline - headlines from War Diary 1939-1946 CMA - Canadian Military Aircraft: Serials and Photographs 1920-1968 CWY - Chronology of the Winning Years, Aeroplane Monthly. FCL - Fighter Command Losses, N.L.R. Franks. FE - Fledgling Eagles, Shores, Foreman, Ehrengardt, Weiss & Olsen. FF Years - The R.C.A.F. Overseas - The First Four Years FP - Flight Patterns, Bilstein LH - Liddell Hart LoN - League of Nations Photo Archive, Timeline. Oxford - The Oxford Companion to World War II, various RCAF Sqns. - RCAF Squadrons and Aircraft 1924-1968 RD Chronology - Readers Digest Canada at War timeline SCW - Spain's Civil War, D.S. Davis Times - The Long Road To Victory, The Times, 1945. TSGNO - They Shall Grow Not Old, L. Allison and H. Hayward VMFA - Ventura Memorial Flight Association, Edmonton, Alberta Books, Magazine and Internet Articles (by author if known, then by title) (books in bold highly recommended) anonymous, The History of 6 RD and the Aerospace Maintenance Development Unit, Boston Mills Press, 1990. anonymous, 404 Squadron History, Craig Kelman and Associates Ltd., 1991? anonymous, 405 Squadron History, Craig Kelman and Associates Ltd., 1986? (1991 reprint). anonymous, 408 Squadron History, The Hangar Bookshelf, 1984. anonymous, 407 Squadron History 1941-1996 - a Narrative History, 407 Squadron, 1996. www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca anonymous, 411 City of York Squadron History, 411 Tactical Aviation Squadron, 1991. anonymous, 416 Squadron History, The Hangar Bookshelf, 1984. anonymous, 421 Squadron History, Canada's Wings Inc., 1982. anonymous, 434 Squadron History, The Hangar Bookshelf, 1984. anonymous, The Battle of Britain August-October 1940, Ministry of Information, His Majesty's Stationary Office, London, 1941. anonymous, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canada's Nuclear History, Nuclear Regulation: By the Decade (1945–1955), Beginnings: Creation of a Canadian nuclear regulator, http://nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/resources/news- room/feature-articles/nuclear-regulation-by-the-decade-1945-1955.cfm anonymous, Chronology of the Winning Years, Aeroplane Monthly, 50th Anniversary souvenir edition Victory in the Air, May, 1995. anonymous, The Long Road To Victory, A Historical Narrative And A Chronological Register Of The Events Of The War In Europe And Africa 1939-1945 With A Leading Article, reprinted from The Times, 1945 (http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/intro_e.shtml) anonymous, The Moose Squadron, 1941-45, The War Years of 419 Squadron, CFTMPC Winnipeg, 1977 (from a wartime manuscript). anonymous, The R.C.A.F. Overseas - The First Four Years, Toronto Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1944 (scanned version). anonymous, The R.C.A.F. Overseas - The Fifth Year, Toronto Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1945 (scanned version). anonymous, The R.C.A.F. Overseas - The Sixth Year, Toronto Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1949 (scanned version). Abbott, K, Gathering of Demons, Inkerman House, 1987. Adair, P., Hitler's Greatest Defeat, Rigel Publications, 2004 ed. Ahlgren, G. and Monier, S., The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax, Branden Books, 2011. Allam, P., Tragedy Came to Pocklington - Halifax "K-King has crashed!", CWHM Flightlines, May/June 2018. Allen, E.E., An RCAF Pilot's Story, 1939-1945, http://www.doralholdings.com/eallen/ Allen, H.R., Who Won the Battle of Britain?, Granada Publishing, 1976. Allen, W.L., Anzio: Edgewww.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca of Disaster, Elsevier-Dutton ed., 1978. Allenby, R, Aircraft Accidents in Yorkshire, www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk . Allison, L. and Hayward, H., Canadians in the Royal Air Force, self published, 1978. Allison, L. and Hayward, H., They Shall Grow Not Old - A Book of Rememberance, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, 1992. They Shall Grow Not Old - Addendum 1, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, 2000 They Shall Grow Not Old - Addendum 2, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, 2007 Amtmann, H., Atlantic Mail Pioneers, Aeroplane Monthly, May, June 1995. Annis, C.L., Eastern Air Command, Recalled, CAHS Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1976. Anthoine, R., No Shots Please, We're British, loss of 431 Sqn. Wellingtons HE374, Aeroplane Monthly, Oct. 1990. Anthoine, R., No Shots Please, We're British, loss of Lancaster W4355, Aeroplane Monthly, Feb. 1993. Anthoine, R., ________ Aeroplane Monthly April 1993, Pg. 46 Anthoine, R., ________ Aeroplane Monthly May 1993, Pg. 62 Armstrong, J., Hitler's Forgotten Vengeance, Aeroplane Monthly, June, 1996. Ashdown, P., The Cruel Victory - The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for Vercors 1944, William Collins, 2015. Ashworth, C., RAF Coastal Command 1936-1969, Patrick Stephens, 1992. Barker, R., Down in the Drink: True Stories of the Goldfish Club, 1955 Barker, R., The Ship Busters, Grub Street, 2009 ed. Barker, R., The Thousand Plane Raid, Ballyntyne, 1966. Barry, B., Chisholm, D., Parsons, B., Age Shall Not Weary Them - Saskatchewan Remembers it's War Dead, People's Places Publishing Ltd., 2005. Barry, P.S., The CANOL Project, An Adventure of the U.S. War Department in Canada's Northwest, 1st ed., 1985. Belgian Aviation History Association, The Search for Lancaster HK620, (users.telenet.be/airwareurope). Barver, N., The Week France Fell, Day Books, 1979. Barris, T., The Great Escape, A Canadian Story, Dundurn, 2013. Bartsch, W.H., Doomed at the Start, Texas A&M University Press, 1995. Bartsch, W.H., Dec.www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca 8, 1941, MacArthur's Pearl Harbour, Texas A&M, 2003. Bashow, D.L., All the Fine Young Eagles, Stoddart, 1979. Bateson, R.P., Arado Ar 234 Blitz, Aircraft in Profile #215, Aircraft in Profile Vol. 10, Doubleday, 1971. Bateson, R.P., Heinkel He-219 Uhu, Aircraft in Profile #219, Aircraft in Profile Vol. 10, Doubleday, 1971. Baugher, J. USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present, www.jbaugher.com/usaf_serials . Beauchamp, G., Hawks of Norway, CAHS Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1977. Beauchamp, G., Mohawks over Burma, Canada's Wings, 1985. Beauchamp, G., The Road to Martinique, CAHS Journal Vol. 13, No. 1, 1975. Beaumont, R., Tempest Summer (Part One), Aeroplane Monthly, June 1992. Bechthold, M., Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign 1940-1941, University of Oklahoma Press, 2017. Beevor, A., The Second World War, Back Bay Books, 2012. 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    Mailed by Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, 9280 Airport Road, FEBRUARY 2015 Mount Hope, Ontario, L0R 1W0 FlighFlighA PUBLICATION OF CANADIANtt WARPlLl ANE HiiERITAnnGE MUSEUM eess OOnnccee iinn aa LLaanncc ttiimmee The RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster (Thumper) flies in formation with Photo: John Dibbs the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum’s Lancaster (Vera) over England last summer. 2 CWH FLIGHTLINES FEBRUARY 2015 TTEESSTTIIMMOONNIIAALLSS from Vera’s United Kingdom tour e would like to express our delight at seeing casters in the air together? Wouldn’t that be something? felt I must make my own personal thank you for “Vera” visiting the UK. She was based at Please... think about it. At the moment, that’s all we bringing your magnificent Lancaster to the UK this Coningsby, Lincolnshire, 300 yards from our can ask, but with enough warning, if you needed vol - summer. I, along with my wife, my two children, Wback garden. We saw her arrive and depart, and many unteers to help out... shall I start the queue now? Ione of eight years and one of four years of age watched times in between, we wish them a safe return, with In the meantime, we look forward to the DVD doc - in awe at the arrival of Vera and Thumper to the Com - happy memories of our village. umentary of the tour. I also heard rumour of a book? bined Ops show at Headcorn Aerodrome in Kent. The Corgi model of “Vera” is fantastic and has given (Editor’s note – there will be a book) . As a huge fan of the Avro Lancaster, I knew that see - great delight and envy to friends and family.