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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The story of a forgotten airplane
The bombing of East Grinstead
John Stewart Hart: “The Spitfire every time”
‘And all who sail in her. . . .’
From Dieppe to D-Day
A German commander’s assessment of the D-Day invasion
The mighty word on D-Day
SS Caribou
Reginald Wise: Saviour of Easter Sunday, 1945
The seizing of Europe’s bells
Ted Martens: Dutch resistance fighter
Ernie Verhulst (Part 1): A wide-eyed boy in Rotterdam, May 1940
Hitler, Raeder, and the demise of the Kriegsmarine
A Letter of Marque from the King
Last soldier standing
Ross Mitchell: A sniper from the farm
“I don’t think we’ll make it back to the pub tonight”
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