Norad has seen many changes during its 65-year existence, but what does the future hold?
They called him “Raffy.” He was one of some 1,800 Canadians and about 100 Newfoundlanders who enlisted directly in the Royal Air Force before the
Patrolling over the Indian Ocean, pilot Leonard Birchall and his aircrew spotted an approaching Japanese fleet It had been a long, uneventful flight. After 12
Crack teams of navigators and pilots marked targets from the air, in the dark and under fire At the beginning of the Second World War,
Female pilots had broken endurance, altitude and speed records before the war, but their hopes of a wartime flying career were stopped in Canada by
Hitler’s plan was to destroy the Royal Air Force then launch Operation Sea Lion, an invasion of England. Winston Churchill assumed as much. “Hitler knows
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.
