Hugh A. Halliday

ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT MARSHALL BUCKHAM, CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM, 19850397-024 Clockwise from top: A painting, titled Card Game, depicts prisoners passing a bit of time; George Harsh;

PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES—PL34287; KEN BELL, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA145497 Top: All five of these airmen were able to evade capture in World War II; a

PHOTOS: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA116061; FREDERICK G. WHITCOMBE, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA140094; NICHOLAS MORANT, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA160861 Clockwise from top: Firemen soak down the

PHOTO: J. McNULTY, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA065566 A Lockheed Lodestar transport aircraft on a journey in May 1945. A look around the globe confirms that

PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES—RE12820; PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES—PL57231; PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES—PL9311 Clockwise from top left: Newfoundlander Roy S. Grandy worked as an air force instructor in 1922;

The Battle of Britain looms large in the history of World War II. It also represented the first commitment of the Royal Canadian Air Force