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Download: Flightlines MAY 2016 Mailed by Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, 9280 Airport Road, Mount Hope, Ontario, MAY 2016 A PUBLICATION OF CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM L0R 1W0 FM213 after her crash landing at Trenton in 1952. Photo courtesy of the Ron Cruse and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum A tale of two Lancasters Lady Orchid just after the maple leafs had been added to her torso, some - time before June 7, 1945 while she was still based at the RCAF base in Croft, Yorkshire. Photo courtesy of the Clarence Simonsen collection How a derelict Canadian Lancaster would render 225, which carried the squadron KB895 and her crew began one last service to her code WL-O (Oboe). operations on April 8, 1945. country and allow an - That aircraft was then reas - Jenkins and his crew would fly a other Lanc to continue signed to No.429 (Bison) total of five missions in her by Squadron on March 28 as No. war’s end: Hamburg on April 8, to fly to this day! 434 Squadron began taking deliv - Leipzig on April 10, Kiel on April ery of new Canadian-built Lan - 13 (in which Jenkins performed caster Mk. Xs. On April 2, 1945 two successive corkscrew ma - By David Clark Jenkins and his crew took charge noeuvres to evade German night - of KB895. fighters), and Schwandorf on n January 24, 1952 Lan - After they completed pre- April 16. The final mission to caster FM213 was on ap - operational testing, No. 434 Bremen on April 22, 1945 was proach to the Royal Squadron’s commanding officer, aborted due to poor weather over OCanadian Air Force (RCAF) base Wing Commander J.C. Mulvil - the target. aOt Trenton, Ontario at the end of hill, assigned them the new Lan - Lady Orchid therefore ended one of the legs of her journey to caster as their personal aircraft. up displaying 15 white bomb join 405 MR (Maritime Recon - Now that the crew had their mission markers for the total naissance) Squadron in Green - Lady Orchid nose art. own Lancaster they decided to number of completed missions wood, Nova Scotia. personalize the aircraft. Though that Jenkins and his crew had The Cold War was in its in - nowhere near as wide-spread as it flown in combat and one red one fancy and Canada had begun to Lady Orchid goes to war Force. Though Ron was 29 years was in American air services, for the aborted mission. rearm after the massive demobi - Lancaster Mk. X KB895 left of age (about 10 years older than painting nose art on aircraft, par - KB895 would also fly a num - lization that had occurred at the the Victory Aircraft Factory in the average recruit) he had his ticularly bombers, was becoming ber of other operations during its end of the Second World War. Malton Ont., January 1945. Vic - heart set on joining the Air Force very popular in the British and time with No. 434 Squadron with FM213 had just recently com - tory Aircraft Limited was a and fighting the war as a pilot. Commonwealth Air Forces by other crews before the war ended, pleted a conversion from a Mark Canadian Crown corporation In the spring of 1943 he was this point in the war. with the final taking place on X heavy bomber to a Mark 10MR created from the Malton branch assigned to No. 4 ITS (Initial April 25, 1945 in a raid on naval maritime reconnaissance and anti- of the National Steel Car Corpo - Training School) of the British defences at Wangerooge under submarine warfare aircraft. ration in November of 1942 as a Commonwealth Air Training the command of F/O Bonar. Unfortunately as she reached ‘shadow factory’, safe from Ger - Plan (BCATP) in Edmonton and Though the war in Europe was the landing field the aircraft man bombing. began his training to become a over, the war in the Pacific still stalled, ground looped and col - This facility would go on to pilot. raged and Lady Orchid and her lapsed her starboard landing gear build thousands of aircraft during After passing through a num - crew continued to train in prepa - as she impacted the runway. Ini - the war, including 430 Mk. X ber of training schools he was ration for deployment against tially it seemed that she was a Lancasters (Mk. X being the des - authorized to wear the Pilot’s Japan. From May 7 to June 7, total write-off, her centre section ignation for Mk. I Lancasters Flying Badge as F/O (Flying Of - 1945 the crew trained intensely. badly damaged. built in Canada). ficer) Jenkins, graduating from On May 10 they flew over With no known source of re - KB895 arrived in England in No. 3 Service Flying Training continental Europe one more time placement for such a large part March of 1945 and was initially School on Oct. 15, 1943. He as part of Operation Exodus, with known to exist in Canada at this issued to No. 428 (Ghost) would then complete a number Lady Orchid flying from Croft to time, as all the other Lancasters Squadron but was soon reissued of other courses before he was Juvincourt France for the purpose had been scrapped or converted to No. 434 (Bluenose) Squadron. posted to No. 434 Squadron in of ferrying Allied POWs back to for other duties, it seemed that Now all the aircraft needed was a Croft, Yorkshire, England on Westcott in England before re - FM213 would be doomed to crew and a pilot. Dec. 21, 1944. turning to Croft. It was also dur - never see active service. Ronald Henry Jenkins was He flew his first operation as ing this time that KB895 gained born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada second pilot over Paris on Jan. 28, Ron Jenkins in October 1943, after some more decorative touches. Thankfully, one of the men receiving his Pilot’s Flying Badge. who had helped to find and reac - on July 8, 1913. He grew up 1945 and was then assigned to an Photo courtesy of the Clarence Lady Orchid herself acquired quire many of the Lancasters that around his family’s grocery busi - aircraft and a permanent crew. Simonsen collection two red maple leaves on her upper had been sold off after World ness, and after graduating from F/O Jenkins and his new crew, torso, the aircraft’s prop spinners War Two during the post-war de - Mount Royal College in 1934 consisting of F/O Savage, F/O were painted roundel blue, the mobilization remembered one went to work in the family busi - Hines, W/O (Warrant Officer) As was the case with their first phrase “Jenkins’ Express” was possible source for this vital re - ness, Jenkins Groceteria, which McLean, F/Sgt (Flight Sergeant) aircraft, KB895’s squadron code painted on the right side of the placement part. by this point was growing into a Baird, Sgt Foss and F/Sgt letters were WL-O, so they named fuselage under the cockpit and tail It would be this event that very successful chain of stores Moodie, would begin flying op - the Lancaster “Wee Lady Or - gunner Bruce Baird painted the would cause the histories of two that would eventually include erations in early February and chid”. The entire crew partici - words “Bruce ‘Buster’ Slim” on Lancasters – one a Second World seven stores, a bakery, and a would go on to fly 11 missions pated in painting the nose art on the face of his turret. War veteran that had lain derelict wholesale branch. (February 3, 7, 19, 26, 27 and the aircraft and it was decided to It was now time to return in a farmers field for a number of In 1943 he left the company to March 2, 7, 8, 10, 14, 20) in a use the image of Lady Godiva rid - home. Lady Orchid and many low years and the other an aircraft that join the Royal Canadian Air British-built Lancaster Mk. I, PA ing a bomb and carrying two six- flight time Canadian-built Lan - had been built for war but seemed shooter pistols, the later part in casters that had been deployed to fated to never serve her country – honour of the western heritage of Europe were flown back to to intersect and allow FM213 to Jenkins’ home town of Calgary. Canada to join the RCAF’s con - not only go on to render many Jenkins painted the red L and tribution to Tiger Force (also years of service to her country but O on the aircraft and the rest of known as the Very Long Range also to survive to become an en - the crew completed the remain - Bomber Force), a large heavy during monument to the service der of the name and the artwork. bomber force that Britain planned of thousands upon thousands of During the painting it was de - to deploy against Japan after hos - men and aircraft that served RCAF Lancasters in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia after returning for Europe in cided to drop the prefix Wee from tilities ended with Germany. Canada during and after the great - 1945, Lady Orchid is second from the right. the name and the aircraft became est conflict in human history. Photo courtesy of the Clarence Simonsen collection known simply as Lady Orchid. • continued on next page 2 CWH FLIGHTLINES MAY 2016 Lancasters • continued from previous page Tiger Force was originally proposed during the Quebec News Briefs Conference in September of 1944 Anne Fran k - A History For Today and was to consist of 22 squadrons from the RAF, RCAF, The Canadian Warplane Her - of Holland and the prejudices RAAF (Royal Australian Air itage Museum is proud to present and discrimination that some Force) and RNZAF (Royal New Zealand Air Force).
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