Author: Second Lieutenant Derek Gaudet
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June 26, 14 Wing’s Personnel Support Programs (PSP), in partnership with the Lifesaving Society of Nova Scotia (NSLS) hosted the annual Valley recreation departments’ summer staff training day. Approximately 75 summer staff from Windsor to Digby, 53 of which are also certified lifeguards, gathered at Greenwood’s Community Centre and Fitness and Sports Centre indoor pool…
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The Bristol Bolingbroke restoration team at the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum (GMAM) has been beavering away over the last year, building new bomb bay doors, torn away April 28, 1943, when the aircraft made a forced belly-landing in a farmer’s field near Dafoe, Saskatchewan. The museum’s aircraft, registered as tail number 9997, suffered an engine…
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On the morning of June 2, the Douglas C-47 Skytrain “Placid Lassie” left England in a three-ship formation, set to drop the first commemorative parachuting display of D-Day 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy. Onboard the 1943 original were 14 Wing Greenwood’s Sergeant Jim Beaulieu, Master Warrant Officer (retired) John Saunders, Greenwood; and Sergeant (retired) Gabriel…
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