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422 SQUADRON (R.C.A.F. WARTIME 1942-1945)


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422 LIFE AND TIMES

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WORLD WAR II ACTION IN THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC


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BATTLE HONOURS

Atlantic Ocean 1942 - 1945... Bay of Biscay 1944 - 1945...
Normandy 1944...Arctic Ocean 1942...English Channel 1944 - 1945.

422 SQUADRON SORTIES 1,116 : FLYING HOURS OPERATIONS - 13,346 : NON-OP.- 5,842

Casualties 86, 31 rescued, 6 injured, 23 buried at sea (Runnymede, U.K.), 27 graves, 12 aircraft lost

THE THANKS OF MEMBERS, AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE FUTURE, ARE EXTENDED TO REGAN- GRANT CORPORATION AND ITS SUCCESSORS FOR BEING SPONSORS OF THESE WEB PAGES, TO HONOUR THE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION BY 1,200 MEN AND WOMEN .... WHO HELPED THE NAVY, MERCHANT MARINES, AND OTHERS KEEP ENEMY SUBMARINES UNDER THE WATER IN THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC ... TO PROTECT THE LIFELINE OF CONVOYS TO GREAT BRITAIN.

THE 2007 CELEBRATION REUNION

LINK TO 422 SQUADRON May 25-26-27, 2007 RE-UNION WINNIPEG, CANADA
CELEBRATING 65 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF THE SQUADRON IN 1942

"Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand and touched the face of God."

....written 1942 by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (at the age of 19)

LINK HERE TO EXECUTIVE AND A STORY OF 422 SQUADRON WARTIME ASSOCIATION IN CANADA

RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL


Stan Nichols, Jack Logan, and Harry Kerrison identifying an old comrade on the Commonwealth Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede, U.K.

More than 17,000 of losses in World War II were members of the Royal Canadian Air Force, or Canadians serving with the Royal Air Force. Approximately one-third of all who died have no known grave.

In England, the design of the Runnymede Memorial is original and striking. On the crest of Cooper's Hill, overlooking the Thames, a square tower dominates a cloister, in the centre of which rests the Stone of Remembrance.

The cloistered walks terminate in two lookouts, one facing towards Windsor, and the other towards London Airport at Heathrow.

The names of the dead are inscribed on the stone revealing the narrow windows in the cloisters and the lookouts. They include those of 3,050 Canadian airmen who have no known grave.

Above the three-arched entrance to the cloister is a great stone eagle with the Royal Air Force motto, "Per Ardua ad Astra".

IN THE CLOISTER ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF THE AIRMEN WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE. THEY DIED FOR FREEDOM IN RAID AND SORTIE OVER THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE LANDS AND SEAS OF NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE


Prior to the 65th Anniversary Celebration, Winnipeg May 2007

A dedication for the Donegal Corridor in Ireland (April) on the left.....Families are, and future families will be, grateful for the many Irish, led by Gary Pentland, James McLaughlin, Breege McCusker, and Joe O'Loughlin, so considerate of dedicating cairns and remembrance all over Northern Ireland and Donegal Corridor, as well as courteously helping visiting families over the years. On the right...a Battle of the Atlantic Parade of naval and air force in Ottawa with #422 (Harry Kerrison) represented.

This memorial window is in the chapel at Pembroke Dock. and moved, later to the RAF Museum at Hendon, England.


The squadron covered the seas ....................and it is now at rest!..............!

Thanks go to (click on subject names for persons) 60 members of the RCAF who have contributed personal stories for a book The Life and Times of #422 Squadron (Wartime), the support of the #422 Association executive, Harry Kerrison, Jack Logan, Jean Doern, and Ken Pye, with help of Bud Crookes (with help from a Federal M.P.), for the first edition.... and for the 2nd/3rd edition, his son Brian Crookes, Publisher.

A summarized history prepared by Jack Logan gives a clear and concise overview.

(ALSO OFFICIAL HISTORY
NATIONAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM OF CANADA)