Canada's World War II Aces : Heroic Pilots and Gunners of the Wartime Skies
They were the heroes of the skies, and their stories continue to amaze and inspire us. In Spitfire cockpits or Lancaster gun turrets, these young men flew and fought for freedomThe stories of Canada's top pilots of the Second World War continue to amaze and inspire us. From Dick Audet, the only Spitfire pilot to ever claim five "kills" in a single sortie to Russell "Russ" Bannock who shot down 19 V-1 rocket bombs in his Mosquito fighter-bomber.