• 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?

Facts on topics related to Royal Canadian Air Force

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?