Lists the name, age, rank, trade, aircraft, target, and date killed in action.
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ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
429 SQUADRON 429
ROYAL CANADIAN
AIR FORCE
FORTUNAE NIHIL
429 SQUADRON, BISON, WAS FOUNDED AT EAST MOOR,
YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND ON 7 NOVEMBER 1942 AS THE
RCAF'S 27TH TENTH BOMBER SQUADRON FORMED
OVERSEAS, THE UNIT FLEW WELLINGTON, HALIFAX
AND LANDCASTER AIRCRAFT ON STRATEGIC AND
TACTICAL BOMBING OPERATIONS.
AFTER HOSTILITIES IN EUROPE, IT REMAINED IN
ENGLAND AS PART OF BOMBER COMMAND'S STRIKE
FORC, UNDER WHICH IT AIRLIFTED ALLIED PRISONERS
OF WAR, AND BRITISH TROOPS FROM ITALY, BACK TO
ENGLAND. THE SQUADRON WAS DISBANDED AT
LEEMING, YORKSHIRE ON 1 JUNE 1946.
THE SQUADRON BADGE WAS AUTHORIZED BY KING
GEORGE VI, JUNE 1944, IT HAS A BISON, THE HEAD
LOWERED AND THE MOTTO FORTUNAE NIHIL (NOTHING
TO CHANCE).
ON DECEMBER 17, 1939 THE AGREEMENT CREATING
THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRANING PLAN
(BCATP) WAS SIGNED.
THE CANADIAN BOMBER GROUP FLEW MORE THAN
40,000 OPERATIONAL SORTIES AND DROPPED 126,122
TONS OF BOMBS AND MINES. NO FEWER THAN 814 AIR
CRAFT FROM 6 GROUP, WELLINGTONS, HALIFAX AND
LANCASTER HAD NOT COME BACK FROM OPERATIONS.
THE MISSION OF THE ALLIED FORCE WAS FULFILLED
AT 3 AM, LOCAL TIME, MAY 7, 1945. ALL HOSTILITIES
CEASE AT 2301 HOURS ON MAY 8, 1945, AND A FEW
HOURS LATER THE SURRENDER TERMS ARE FORMALLY
RATIFIED IN BERLIN.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED, THAT A BBC ANNOUNCER STATED
AT THE TIME, "HOSTILIITIES WILL END OFFICIALLY AT
ONE MINUTE AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, TUESDAY
THE 8TH OF MAY." CHURCHILL TELLS THE PEOPLE,
"BUT IN THE INTEREST OF SAVING LIVES THE FIRST
CEASE-FIRE BEGAN YESTERDAY AND WAS SOUNDED
ALONG ALL FRONTS."
AS WINSTON CHRUCHILL ONCE SAID AFTER THE WAR,
"THAT THE WORDS, 'FREEDOM', 'DEMOCRACY', AND
'LIBERATION' ARE NOT DISTORTED FROM THEIR
TRUE MEANING AS WE UNDERSTAND THEM."
