Lancaster pilot Jack Widdicombe was a wide-eyed Prairie farm boy about to be thrust into the inferno of Second World War Europe when he boarded a double-decker bus and toured London shortly after arriving in England.
The 21-year-old native of Foxwarren, Man., and a pal set out to see the sights and instead encountered block after block of rubble. Twenty-three bombing missions over Nazi territory and 1,200 hours of combat and other wartime flying lay ahead of him...
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Disaster aboard HMCS Kootenay
Deadly tech: the rapid advance of First World War weaponry
Stuff of legend: ingredients that make the Victoria Cross
The mystery of the Thames Victoria Cross
James Andrew Watson: WW II bomber pilot sacrifices life to save crew
The juice that fuelled victory in the Battle of Britain
The fighting Robertson brothers of Campbellton, N.B.
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Non-combatants accounted for the bulk of Second World War deaths
German Red Cross to continue tracking WW II disappearances
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