![]() ![]() Role played by our country in achieving victory by the Allies in World War Two.ĭ-Day was the largest sea borne invasion in our history. It is done in the hope it will evoke a better appreciation of the enormous To organise my thoughts on a profoundly humbling series of events both then and now. This, then, is the objective in providing this compilation, an opportunity Sixty years after the invasion of Nazi Europe, the 11-day journey back to Normandy in June 2004, has served to cement that belief. My experience as a Spitfire fighter pilot in the Second Tactical Air Force during World War Two, in the cause of restoring freedom and justice, has been a compelling influence in my life. Would represent the Royal Canadian Air Force, I was both deeply proud and humbled. Of course when the full weight of the recommendation hit home, that I would be one of only 60 Veterans invited to comprise the Official Delegation, and only five The War Amps Association, the co-ordinatingīody for Veterans Affairs, included me in the "Back to Normandy" delegation as part of the RCAF ![]() The Canadian Fighter Pilots Association and the Air Force Association of Canada recommended my participation. I was pleasantly surprised to be included in the detailed list of Veterans to attend the 60th Anniversary commemoration of D-Day in France in June 2004. Heavy as these losses were, they were far less than planners had feared. In the absence of a port facility a pontoon wharf known as a Mulberry Harbour was erected to get men and material into France to secure the beachhead.Ĭanada suffered 1,074 casualties including 359 dead on D-Day.
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