2015 – 408 "Goose" Squadron Association

Charley Goes to War

March 29, 2015 association

Charley Goes to War is an account of the Second World War told through the experiences of an RCAF airman from Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Glen Hancock takes us from the streets of Wolfville on September 4, 1939, to Canada’s training camps, and from there to his first operation out of No. 408 Goose Squadron until the final defeat of Nazi Germany and his return to Canada in 1945. Hancock’s memoir maintains a refreshing balance between the headline events of the war and daily life in training and on air force…

408 Squadron History

March 28, 2015March 28, 2015 association

Title: 408 Squadron History ISBN: 0-920002-32-3 Publisher: Canada’s Wings Year of Publication: 1984 Author: Hardcover: Yes Dimensions: 10.5″ w x 8.5″ h Pages: 108 Comments: 1941 to 1984. Covers operations overseas in WWII on the Hampden, Halifax, Lancaster. Post War on the Lancaster, C-119, C-130, T-33, Huey and Kiowa. Many period photos, mainly B & W, of squadron personnel and aircraft.

Letter to a New Grandson: The Story of a Ww2 Lancaster Pilot

March 28, 2015July 4, 2018 association

Letter to a New Grandson: The Story of a Ww2 Lancaster Pilot Paperback – Jun 8 2014 by Wally Kasper (Author) Letter to a New Grandson, The Story of a WW2 Lancaster pilot depicts the fears, the tactics, the dramas encountered by those brave men of Bomber Command. Wally’s unique voice will take you along with his crew on missions fraught with danger. The story of a young couple in war torn England will touch the heart and bring to mind the realities of war. It is a story suitable…

Been There, Done That: Through Treacherous Skies

March 28, 2015March 28, 2015 association

Been There, Done That: Through Treacherous Skies Paperback – Jan 25 2006 by Ron Butcher DFC CD (Ret’d) (Author) It is the gripping life story of a decorated Air Navigator who, with his crew in a Lancaster, did a tour of operations in a Canadian squadron of RAF Bomber Command in WWII, spending nine months in the front lines. There are tales of night raids to Southeast Germany and 6 raids to Berlin. This milieu had up to 1 million personnel, 20,625 guns, 6,680 searchlights and about 400 fighters, a…

Avro Lancaster KB882 Found a New Home

March 23, 2015March 27, 2015 association

Argunners Magazine As Warbirds News reported back in February the combat veteran Avro Lancaster KB882 which has long been on outside display in Edmundston, New Brunswick was set to move to a new home. The local town council, which owns the former RCAF bomber, had come to the sad conclusion that they no longer had the means to care for the rare aircraft in its deteriorating state, and decided they had to pass the torch to another group, even if that meant that KB882 had to leave its home in…

408 Squadron officer wins Ironman World Championship military division

February 8, 2015March 28, 2015 association

408 Squadron officer wins Ironman World Championship military division News Article / January 14, 2015 Major Joel Maley is the squadron aircraft maintenance and engineering officer at 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron (THS) at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Edmonton, Alberta. He has competed at the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA, for three consecutive years. 2014, however, will go down as the most memorable because he won the military division in the first year that the Championship opened the military division to countries other than the United States. “This is…