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the graves of 13
Britons
and a
Jamaican
trained at
Royal Canadian Air Force
Station Mount Hope during
World War II
, are still maintained in a local
churchyard
in
Glanbrook
,
Ontario
?
a plane of
Royal Canadian Air Force
's
No. 426 Squadron
made
Canada
's first coast-to-coast non-stop flight?
Bill Orban
developed the
5BX
plan to help
Canadian Air Force
pilots keep fit?
American
flying ace
John C. "Pappy" Herbst
painted a
swastika
on his
P-51B Mustang
to indicate an aerial victory he said he earned while flying with the
Royal Canadian Air Force
?
Brigadier General
Mihiel Gilormini
, founder of the
Puerto Rico Air National Guard
, served in the
Royal Canadian Air Force
, the UK's
Royal Air Force
, and the
United States Army Air Corps
during
World War II
?
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Canadian Forces Air Command
the
New Fighter Aircraft program
selected the
CF-18 Hornet
(pictured)
for the
Canadian Forces Air Command
when attempts to purchase
Iran
's fleet of
F-14 Tomcats
failed?
Canadian Forces
the
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion
was the first
Canadian unit
on the ground in
France
in the
Invasion of Normandy
on
D-Day
, 1944?
while
Chief of Defence Staff
Jean Boyle
was ridiculed for ordering the
Canadian military
to halt nearly all operations for one day to search for
missing files
, some were subsequently found?
Corporal
Corporal
Bryan Budd
is being
posthumously
awarded the
Victoria Cross
for his actions in
Helmand Province
,
Afghanistan
, only the 13th such award since the
Second World War
?
Corporal
Mark Wright
will be
posthumously
awarded the
George Cross
for entering an unmarked
minefield
in
Helmand Province
,
Afghanistan
, attempting to save other injured soldiers?
Marine
corporal
Charles W. Lindberg
was part of the first
flag raising
on
Iwo Jima
hours before the famous photo was taken by
Joe Rosenthal
?
Royal Air Force
football
champion
Romualdas Marcinkus
(pictured)
was the only
Lithuanian
pilot to serve in the
Royal Air Force
during the
Second World War
?
Brigadier General
Mihiel Gilormini
, founder of the
Puerto Rico Air National Guard
, served in the
Royal Canadian Air Force
, the UK's
Royal Air Force
, and the
United States Army Air Corps
during
World War II
?
Czech
Second World War
fighter pilot
František Fajtl
briefly flew for the
French Air Force
before commanding units in the
Royal Air Force
and then a
Czechoslovak
regiment formed by the
Soviet Union
?
RAF
Wing Commander
George Salaman
was the last
Englishman
to be imprisoned in the
Tower of London
when he impersonated a
Luftwaffe
officer to entrap the imprisoned
Rudolf Hess
?
Royal Air Force
pilot
Robert Leith-Macgregor
was twice shot down during
World War II
and then strafed by German fighters, but survived uninjured both times?
SMS
Zähringen
, one of the five
Wittelsbach
-class
battleships
(pictured)
, was rebuilt after
World War I
as a radio-controlled
target ship
and destroyed by British
Royal Air Force
bombers during
World War II
?
Wing Commander
George H. Stainforth
AFC
RAF
was the first man to exceed 400
mph
in an
aircraft
?
Banwell Castle
served as the headquarters for a squadron of the
Balloon Command
of the
Royal Air Force
during
World War II
?
Indra Lal Roy
of the
Royal Air Force
became
India
's first
flying ace
after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during
World War I
?
Kenneth St Joseph
, who pioneered the use of
aerial photography
for archaeology, persuaded the
Royal Air Force
to take photos for him without charging?
Group Captain
Group Captain
(later
Air Chief Marshal
Sir)
Frederick Scherger
was one of the few senior
RAAF
officers in
Northern Australia
to emerge from the inquiry into the
bombing of Darwin
in February 1942 with his career undamaged?
Group Officer
Clare Stevenson
was the first Director of the
Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
(WAAAF)?
RAAF
Beaufort
squadrons fighting in
New Guinea
under the command of
Group Captain
Val Hancock
were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured
Japanese
ordnance
to augment their bomb loads?
at 24,
Wilfred Arthur
was the youngest
Group Captain
in the history of the
Royal Australian Air Force
?
before
Air Marshal
Richard Williams
was called "Father of the
RAAF
", the title was often accorded to
Group Captain
Eric Harrison
, who gave Williams his initial flight training?
the
Commanding Officer
of
RAAF Station Richmond
in 1938–40,
Group Captain
"Kanga" De La Rue
, was once locked up by his own guards when he tried to enter the base without a pass?
Flying Officer
Flying Officer
(later
Air Commodore
)
Frank Lukis
was one of the original twenty-one officers in the
RAAF
when it was formed in 1921?
Flying Officer
Les Clisby
(pictured)
,
Australia
's first
fighter ace
of
World War II
, once landed beside a German bomber he had forced down and captured the crew at gunpoint?
Wing Commander
Stanley Goble
and
Flying Officer
Ivor McIntyre, piloting a single-engined
seaplane
(
pictured
), became the first men to
circumnavigate
Australia
by air in 1924?
Royal Flying Corps
Thomas Orde-Lees
(
pictured
) jumped from
Tower Bridge
into the
River Thames
to prove the effectiveness of parachutes to the
Royal Flying Corps
?
on 25 April 1916,
Royal Flying Corps
ace
David Tidmarsh
was awarded an aerial victory without firing a shot from his
Airco DH.2
(pictured)
, or getting within a quarter mile of his enemy?
Canadian Armed Forces
the
Canadian Armed Forces
mobilized more than 2,200
soldiers
within days to help fight over 800 separate
forest fires
during
Operation PEREGRINE
in the
summer
of
2003
?
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