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Given Beurling's history of flying new aircraft without a lot of prep time, such as the Spit Mk IX (or was it V) incident where he lost altitude due to a pilot error and almost died, most historians believe the fiery Norseman crash was due to unfamiliarity of the controls during take-off. But...

If this is the wrong forum, then I appologize. I was wondering what the history was behind the bronze statuettes from RMC called "Brucie". My grandfather had one in his possession and I now have it. I searched google and the RMC sites, including the alumni sites but couldn't find out anything...

"Lives of a Bengal Lancer" IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026643/ Looks good, thanks for catching that one!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049665/ You'll want to catch this one, Reach For the Sky, about Douglas Bader. He commanded 242, Canadian Squadron during the BoB. Several notable Canadian Fighter pilots are mentioned such as Stan Turner and a few others. I thought it was excellent bio pic with...

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=95b4c9e5-de13-4425-bc87-218c1031583c&k=94676&p=1 Saturday's Ottawa Citizen had some good articles about the current status of the Leopard tanks (how many were sold, used for target practice, and are still in service) as well as the recent...

Actually that is up in the air about Bogart's character's Canadian military experience because he was one of the boatmen recruited to rescue General Gordon from the Sudan. They tried unsuccessfully to bring over Canadian "Voyageurs" to go down the Nile and Bogart mentions he was one of them...

Actually the sad part is because it was published by the media it will now end up on numerous websites depicting pictures of drunken or rowdy behaviour for the enlightenment of fans of that sort of thing.

Put a camera up. They do it at bank machines and stop lights.

With 3 or 4 C17 transports, don't they need air to air refueling over long hauls? We used have 707's do that, if I recall. I remember when they got rid of those.

Thanks for the additions. I had forgotten about a few like "Legends of the Fall", "Captains of the Clouds", etc. I would love to see them do a movie about Vimy Ridge or Mowatt's "The Regiment" (I am biased, naturally), or Billy Bishop, or even Stephenson "A Man Called Intrepid", even Ortona...

I appologize in advance if this topic has been done before or if this is the wrong place. I was wondering if anyone could add a relatively popular, hopefully somewhat historically sound, war movie that they have seen that depicts Canadian soldiers or at least a main character who is Canadian to...

Yes, I remember flying in the back of the Chinooks in Petawawa back in '86 or so from 450 Sqn in Ottawa. I took a drive down Royal Road at the empty spots where the hangars used to store em at Uplands. Too bad.

The country is not at war.  I talked to my granpa today who is in his 80's who remembers what it is like to be at war. 2300 troops in Afghanistan was the number of Canadian casualties for a few weeks in Caen, Ortona, or the Gustav Line. While everyone appreciates the sacrifice and role our...

If they can do the job, let them. Police women have been doing an outstanding job on the line for decades and they face the risk of dying on duty. There are fire women, too. Capt Goddard proved that she was great at what she did. Why deny the CAF such talent?

-1200 Medically Unfit -1600 Physically Unfit hmmm, are they saying that the 1200 that were 'medically unfit' were physically fit? 1600 physically unfit means what? Overweight? Underweight? Can't run 1.5 km? I wish I could compare this to a sampling of 13500 recruits for WW2 and see what the...

May our prayers be with the family.

Yep, the idea for this thread came as a result of shooting the **** with a group of vets (my family occasions), Korea and WW2, etc over the weekend reading the stories in the Toronto Star and Citizen. We all got in a discussion about the how the press handled things then and now. Thank you for...

I am not trying to offend here, but the Ottawa Citizen ran a front page article over the list of Canadians who have died. They listed 11 (not including the Canadian from Gatineau Quebec who died in a helicopter crash with the US Army). Of these 11, 4 were friendly fire, 2 were from the LAV 3...

Having toured both campuses, I would choose UBC for it's beauty and architecture.

He should have at least been stripped of his leaf and brought down to Pvt. Can't have a guy like in any leadership capacity. Scares me to think this guy could be in a war zone somewhere, come across some children ... he needs to go.