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No. 420 Squadron RCAF

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anti-submarine program. As an Air Reserve Squadron it participated with regular fisheries patrols. It was one of the few active Air Reserve Squadrons in Canada and was paired with the Regular Force's 880 Squadron. The Squadron was rebased to CFB Summerside when that base was downsized. No. 420 Squadron is no longer active.
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Halifax "F" for Freddy had its nose art, "Fangs of Fire" saved on scrapping. It depicted a fox in a pilot's uniform holding a bomb in its teeth. It resides in the War Museum Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was used on tee shirts available in the museum. The last pilot was Flt. Sgt. Raymond J. Lepp. He
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aircraft in a fighter role until the squadron disbanded on 1 September 1956. Re-formed during the unification period, No. 420 was an air reserve squadron based initially at CFB Shearwater, Nova scotia flying the Tracker air craft that had once been the backbone of the Canadian Naval Air's
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English Channel and North Sea 1942–44, Baltic 1942, Fortress Europe 1942–44, France and Germany 1944–45, Biscay Ports 1942–44, Ruhr 1942–45, Berlin 1944, German Ports 1942–45, Normandy 1944, Rhine, Biscay 1942-43, Sicily 1943, Italy 1943,
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and another Halifax crashed in sea en route to objective. However, the final operational flight was Halifax mk iii PT H piloted by F/lt Rush assisted by Flight Engineer Ben May: On 22 April the squadron left for a raid on
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From family archives of Flight Engineer Ben John May 1894855, Flight Engineer's mission log. List of last missions flown in both Halifax iii and Lancasters : 1945: From Tolthorpe Yorkshire: op Renie, op
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aircraft on strategic and tactical bombing operations. From June to October 1943 it flew tropicalized Wellington aircraft from North Africa in support of the invasions of
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In 2004 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation made a film which documents the crash of DF626, a Wellington bomber of the 420 Squadron. The film is called
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nnn where XX was the unit code and nnn was the last 3 digits of the serial number. Unit code was replaced with "RCAF" in 1958
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XXA where VC was the civil code used by the RCAF replacing CF-, XX was the unit code and A was the aircraft ID letter
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Non-standard code as unit using OW added L. Letters normally denoted parent Command, aircraft type (L
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First operational mission: 21 January 1942: 5 Hampdens dispatched to bomb a target at
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Halifax F for Freddy, Fangs of Fire Nose Art in War Museum Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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and his crew flew 33 missions, the last being Friday, April 13, 1945.
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Aircraft administered and serviced by the RCAF but manned by the
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Last operational missions: On 18 April 1945: 18 Halifaxes bombed
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on 19 December 1941 by Jordan Tyler and Dan Riggden. During the
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