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Under The Maple Leaf – The Remarkable Story Of Four Canadian Volunteers Who Flew With Bomber Command During The Second World War

AUTHOR – Kenneth B. Cothliff

PUBLISHER – Fighting High

FORMAT – Hardback

PAGES – 194

PUBLISHED – 2015

ISBN – 978 1 99932129 1 8

 

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Category: Product ID: 10413

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The author has pieced together the extraordinary stories of four Canadian volunteers who chose to fly ‘Under the Maple Leaf’. There was no mandatory conscription in Canada. They chose to serve their country and the British Commonwealth in it’s time of greatest need, and the choice was theirs and theirs alone.  Reg Lane joined Bomber Command relatively early and was in action by the autumn of 1941, rising from NCO pilot to become a‘Master Bomber’ with the elite Pathfinder Force. Jim Moffat, the ‘Evader’, ended his flying combat career after twelve operations, becoming a fighter on the European mainland with the Resistance. Steve Puskas’s comprehensive diaries and unpublished writings provide an extraordinary insight into his training as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, an experience familiar to many Commonwealth and British air crew. Bill Gracie, a Scot who had emigrated to Canada as a boy, was keen to take up the fight when the war began, with the sole aim of becoming aircrew. Sadly, he was one of the 55,573 Bomber Command aircrew, of which over 10,000 were Canadian, who never returned home.
 ‘Under the Maple Leaf’ is the story of a few of Bomber Command’s many young Canadian aircrew, all of whom made their contribution to the eventual victory over tyranny.

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