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Epilogue – A Journey Into the Past

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About some Spitfire pilots…

Preserving the Past

Post by Pierre Lagacé

Clarence Simonsen has done an incredible research using Gordon Hill’s photos.

This is probably the most interesting photograph in the hundreds of photos in Gordon McKenzie Hill’s collection.

At least in my own humble opinion…

This is what Clarence wrote about it.

Gordon Hill was sent to the RCAF Release Deport in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and met up with an old High School friend who was graduating from the University of Manitoba. Gordon became her escort for the evening, and had his photo taken after the dinner. The other males at his table have spent the past four years studying at University, while Gordon was flying around the world, fighting for Canada. I wonder if they had any idea what he had seen and done for them.

“I wonder if they had any idea what he had seen and done for them.”

I don’t know if these…

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Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB: Little by Little.

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Well well…

Aviation Rapture

Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB: Little by Little.

French-Canadian Flight Sergeant Georges Nadon, a pilot of the 122 Sqn, ready for some action in his Spitfire at Hornchurch, May 1942.
Equiped with a neat Type C helmet and the “cumbersomely British” Type E Oxy Mask;at this stage of the war the British flight gear had nicely evolved from its crude beginning (look the link below) yet this Canadian Flight Sergeant still conserved the deficient Type III googles.

Spitfire’s Knight: Humble Armor.

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