Oliver Packer quickly put together his heavy diving gear kept on a special raft maintained by his Newport Fire Department and headed north into Lake Memphremagog on what he already knew would be a recovery mission. The raft was pulled by a United States Customs boat and their task this […]

Airmen on both sides of the European war shared the same universal fear of having to bail out over the English Channel. The cold was killing, no matter the time of year. Even if you could get into a dinghy the chance of being seen in the expanse was small. […]

One of the great statistical mysteries of life in Bomber Command finds the two most dangerous times for aircrew were in the first five or last five of the required 30 operations to finish a tour. Rookie crews (Sprogs) seem to make sense. They hadn’t had time to learn the […]

Robert J. Middleton, who died on Wednesday morning at 98 years old, grew up in a hard-working east end neighbourhood of Toronto, down by Coxwell Avenue, and Dundas Street. An athletic youth, he was consumed and enthralled by the exploits of aviation pioneers, including Lindberg, Wop May, Amelia Earhart, and […]