RCAF Kittyhawk in the Smithsonian
With all of the exciting ‘stuff’ going on, it occurred to me when creating a Facebook post on what the significance of today was for my family (WWII life saving crash day), that I failed to write a blog post about this SUPER exciting find at the Smithsonian! So here it is, better late than […]
WWII at Elmendorf Air Field
Last Sunday, on Canada Day nonetheless, I was blessed with the opportunity to fly out of the very same airfield as my grandfather did 76 years prior, Elmendorf Field, (Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson). It was 1942 and the RCAF had just arrived in Anchorage to commence joint operations with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Here […]
For The Love Of Flying!
One of the areas I worked diligently on during the planning of the Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Bombing of Dutch Harbor and Aleut Evacuation in Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) this past June, was making sure we had some period planes attend the event. For the first eleven months, the Aleutian campaign took […]
Thanksgiving 1942
Normally, when Canadian Thanksgiving rolls around, I am on some softball park sweating every once of fluid I have out of my body while I watch my daughter play softball. But not this year…. This year, for the first time in close to a decade, I had the chance to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving, albeit still […]