June 22-2015 - Monday - Update - Appendix 1 - Raf FC Finding Aids

Chapter 8 - FINDING AIDS Earth Angels Rising - Ted Beaudoin, September, 2015
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FINDING AIDS can help those wanting to know more about this operation, which despite a number of command and
name changes, had become popularly known throughout the war as the RAFs Ferry Command.
Who would have thought, for example, that the very idea of flying bombers through the dangerous, then-uncharted and
relatively-unknown North Atlantic Ocean skies would have come from a letter written by an export merchant, Mr.
Oakes-White, of Hunt & Holditch, Ltd., in Torquay, England?
So wrote the man who ran the RAF FC / TC out of Canada, Air Commodore Griffith Taffy Powell,
CBE, at left - on Page 20 of his memoires, Ferryman - from Ferry Command to Silver City, published
by Airlife in May, 1982. The book is still available in 2015 from many bookstores, including among
others, Amazon.com, 17 used books at US$ 3.23 each and new at US$ 180.42, or from Airlife, its
original publisher: 9 used books at US $ 11.21 and new at US $ 11.12.
It took a lot of searching and reading of the precious-few books on the RAF FC / TC, along with numerous magazine
and newspaper articles to uncover this item, best categorized perhaps under the trivia heading where it comes to pure
and highly-detailed research.
NB: Photo of Mr. Powell from http://www.silvercityairways.com/the_company.htm
Where the idea first came from, according to Mr. Powell:
"It was in fact a firm of London export merchants, Hunt & Holditch Ltd., which seems to have put the
first suggestion on the Ministry of Aircraft Production files when a director, Mr. Oakes-White wrote to
Lord Beaverbrook, then Minister of Aircraft Production, to say that he had contact with a group of airline
pilots and proposed a convoy system whereby each group of Hudsons would be shepherded by a flying
boat. The scheme had some unworkable features and was turned down. It did however bring the
suggestion to air ferry out into the open and to the front of Lord Beaverbrook's mind; so much so that by
mid-1940 there were extensive exchanges for and against the proposal.
His idea led to a delivery rate of an average of 114 aircraft a day, day-in and day-out between November
1940 and August, 1945.
However, simply typing the words RAF Ferry Command or RAF Transport Command alone into a search engine will not
provide the massive amount of information which does exist on the internet, and in other places.
Trying to find information about the then sometimes-secret RAF FC has been difficult for two reasons.
The first is due to the fact that its records are scattered all over the map, and the second is the result of a number of
name and command structure changes since it first began as a division of one of Canadas two national railways: the
Canadian Pacific Railways Air Services Department - CPASD. It ran the show the Atlantic Ferry Organisation - ATFERO
with a Return Ferry Service - RFS. Helping them in a big way were the British Overseas Airways Corporation- BOAC,
Trans-Canada Airlines - TCA and a number of American airlines, such as Pan-American - Pan Am, Trans-World Airlines TWA and United airlines - UA.
By early 1941, the civilians were assisted in making deliveries across this and later, other trans-ocean routes, with
military personnel seconded to them from allied air forces, or civilian personnel attached to them from allied nations
commercial airlines providing air, ground and administrative personnel, services and auxiliary aircraft from the RCAF
- the Royal Canadian Air Force, the USAAF - United States Army Air Force - and from other allied countries air forces including, among others, the CAAF - Czechoslovak Army Air Force, the RAAF - Royal Australian Air Force, the RNZAF Royal New Zealand Air Force, the SRAF - South Rhodesian Air Force, the SAAF South African Air Force - SAAF, the
Russian air force, and a number of allied nations commercial air carriers.
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As stated in the Louis Lang story of Chapter 11, more and more folks are starting to become aware of this magnificent airlift
and there will be more recognition soon, thanks to Bob Briggs,

Gander, NL, Canada, who, along with his supporters, and other
federal government departments, to be named soon), a new
museum dedicated exclusively to the RAF FC is expected to rise
between 2015 and 2016 in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.
(Artists sketch)
Other allied air force military commands existed at the time, but they were mainly used to ferry military aircraft to and from
their internal air bases, or to other countries where their bases were located. They were not used to ferry military aircraft
across the worlds ocean on any regular basis. Also, they were not equipped, nor staffed, to be able to do the job which the
civilians did on their behalf.
The RAF FC was a totally England-led and England-funded operation, with all civilian employees sworn to secrecy, operating
exclusively out of Canada, and regularly used by the Canadian who became known as Intrepid, a subject of many
newspaper and magazine articles and movies for theatres and television. He was one of a few highly-select and
influential men who brilliantly wielded major influence at the highest political and military levels in
Canada, England and the USA. William Stephenson was Intrepid. His highly-secret Camp X near
Toronto, Ontario, Canada made great and regular use of RAF FC aircraft deliveries to ferry many
allied military intelligence personnel who trained at Camp X from the camp to England, to penetrate enemy
lines. For military intelligence personnel read the word spies.
(Portrait of Mr. Stephenson, at right: published with permission by famed Canadian artist, Ms Irma Coucill, Toronto, ON).
Each of the three books will feature two sections - this appendix
along with the first official story, published in 1945, about this
organization, written under contract by John Pudney In 1940
he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force as an intelligence
officer and as a member of the Air Ministry's Creative Writer's Unit. It will be APPENDIX 2 in all three books.
During World War II Pudney published articles for this organization, including, in 1945, the only
known official history of the RAF Ferry Command. The Harry Ramson Humanities Research
Center at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, USA, provided interesting background
information on Pudney. An accomplished writer and poet, he also penned, one of 28 of his
works contained in this archive, The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Royal Air Force.
His 50-page book on the RAF FC is now in the public domain, and is cited as such in each of the
three books. His book, Atlantic Bridge, has been found on the internet to have two
distinctively separate covers the official cover - at LEFT - is now in the public domain, and anyone can re-publish it for sale
without paying the authors estate any royalties. The second cover, at right, is on a book which is listed as being offered for
sale at $25.22 + $3.10 SHIPPING at the following web site
http://www.rakuten.com/prod/atlantic-bridge-the-official-account-of-r-a-f-transport-commands/q/loc/106/31233942.html
The bottom line on the cover of the for-sale version reads - Prepared by the Ministry of Information for United Kingdom
Air Ministry slightly different from the bottom line of the official public domain version which reads: THE OFFICIAL
ACCOUNT OF R.A.F. TRANSPORT COMMANDS OCEAN FERRY - NINEPENCE Net. Pudneys book received newspaper and
magazine attention soon after it was published, as seen by a brief two-column news item in the Reno Evening Gazette
on Page 4 of its Monday, Feb. 19th, 1945 edition, near the bottom of the page no source had been attributed to this
story. This particular newspaper article surfaced from the following web site, which has been invaluable in providing
archived newspaper stories, which for this subject date back to the early 1930s
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About the Atlantic Bridge - from
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/SearchResultsV3.aspx
Across the "Atlantic Bridge"
ON NOVEMBER 11, 1940, seven two-engined airplanes landed at a British airfield after flying direct from
Newfoundland. That was the beginning of the RAF transport command's ocean ferry.
In 1940, twenty-six planes were ferried across the "Atlantic bridge." How that vital service has grown is
indicated in a booklet put out by the British air ministry which states that 1336 planes were ferried across
the ocean in 1943.
The "bridge" now has two "spans," across the north Atlantic and across the south Atlantic, using
airfields blasted from volcanic rock, hewn from jungle and levelled from sand dunes.
Many stories that are strangerat least more thrillingthan fiction could be related about the
pioneers who blazed this air trail. There was, for instance, Jack Durham, a Texan who flew planes from
Nassau in the Bahamas to Africa, "like shelling peas." In four months Durham delivered eleven aircraft
and on the twelfth trip he lost both motors in mid-Atlantic, ending his career.
In addition to flying boats and four-engined and twin-engined bombers, the transport command also
ferries freight, passengers and official mail. Among its stranger cargo was $30,000 worth of radium,
which put the ship's compass out by 14 degrees.
The British air ministry now reports that "The Atlantic air has been mastered; its history is only just
beginning." The record of the transport command indicates there is no exaggeration in that statement.
While these sources include web sites, this list also provides the names of individuals, governments, private corporations and
companies, agencies and associations whose personnel have provided interviews and / or donated material in the form of
such items as letters news clippings - magazine and newspapers CDs containing personal and commercial dramatic,
fictional and documentary films. Most of the internet-based information is available at no charge; only a few web sites
charge a fee.
This list can help those looking for information, from any source, about their relatives and / or friends who served with
the RAF FC in any capacity as civilian employees or as military personnel seconded to the RAF FC from various allied
air forces as 1-Trippers or for longer periods of time.
How to find information on the internet about the RAFs Ferry Command operation of WW II
In trying to find anything on the internet dealing with the Royal Air Forces Ferry Command operation, it is important to
be aware of the official names by which it was known between 1939 and 1945. Simply entering the words Royal Air Force
Ferry Command or Ferry Command alone into a search engine will not yield many good results. Why not?
As noted earlier, this is because military air ferry commands already existed before WW II to ferry allied air forces
aircraft to their various bases around the world.
Without using the official names of wha t was popular ly known as the RAF Ferry Command in search
engines, results will be sparse and almost limited. But by using the four names shown here on different searches, many
interesting results are more likely to show up.
The months of December 1939 and January 1940 saw the start of recruiting of air and support ground crews,
and administration personnel, along with the delivery of aircraft from the USA into Canada.
The actual flying of bombers across the North Atlantic Ocean only began on Sunday, Nov. 10th, 1940 by
personnel hired by the Canadian Pacific Railways Air Service Department - the CPASD.
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This same operation was also known by two other identifiers ATFERO for Atlantic Ferry Organization and its
Return Ferry Organization/Service, the RFO/RFS, for which no known logos have yet been found on the net, nor in
corporate archives of the CPR.
Nine months later, by May, 1941, ATFERO would be ripped from CPRs civilian hands at the demands of American
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who wanted it placed under the military control of the Royal Air Force,
operating concurrently from what was then known as St- Hubert airport in St. Hubert, south of Montral
Island, and Dorval airport on the west end of Montral Island, both in the Canadian province of Qubec:
thus the logo showing the British Ministry of Aircraft Production.
Another name change came into place two months after that, in July, 1941 when it became officially known for the first
time as the RAF Ferry Command. The fourth and final name and command structure changes
took place in April 1943, revealing the final official name of the operation, the one by which is
became formally known and recognized throughout the world - todays R.A.F. Transport Command.
Little wonder its been difficult to find useful and accurate results on this incredible airborne
armada by using only the words Royal Air Force Ferry Command or Ferry Command. Additional information can also be
found by entering the above names in the Way Back Machine, described elsewhere in these pages.
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Archives, associations, companies, governments, museums, organizations, universities
Australia
Trove - http://trove.nla.gov.au/ - free service, no fees or subscription needed Find and get over
390,815,994 Australian and online resources
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Canada
Alberta Aviation Museum & Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society
11410 Kingsway Ave., Edmonton, Alberta - T5G 0X4
http://www.albertaaviationmuseum.com Jim Coutts, Editor, In Formation newsletter
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Bomber Command Museum of Canada
1729 - 21st Ave., Nanton, Alberta
http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca
Curator: Bob Evans - volunteer: permissions from him and the author, Clarence Simonsen to reproduce Mr. Simonsens
article on the wondrous wink-wink, nudge-nudge dog-and-pony show better known as the American recruiting trio of the
Clayton-Knight Committee
Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame
PO Box 6090 - Wetaskiwin, Alberta - T9A 2E8
17 of its 240 members in 2015 were associated with the RAF FC / TC http://cahf.ca
David Crone, former curator, Mary Oswald, former editor of the CAHF newsletter The Flyer
Harry Hayward, volunteer
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Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
100 Laurier Street, Gatineau, Qubec - K1A 0M8
www.historymuseum.ca
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Canadian Museum of Flight
Hangar #3, 5333 216th St., Langley, British Columbia - V2Y 2N3
http://www.canadianflight.org
Jerry Vernon, President of the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society, provided material for
James McClellands paper on the January 15th, 1940, horse-towing of Hudson bombers from North Dakota into Manitoba
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Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Canadian Pacific Railway
Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, President
Punch Dickens: Prior to the Second World War Dickins became the general superintendent for CPRs airline division.
When war began he headed the first organization to set up what became the RAF FC.
Bob Kennell: (Retired) Manager, Canadian Pacific Archives & Product Licensing
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Canadian War Museum
1 Vimy Place, Ottawa, ON - K1A 0M8
http://www.warmuseum.ca/home/
Jane Naisbitt, Head, Military History Research Centre - jane.naisbitt@warmuseum.ca
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Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc.
Box 3, Grp. 520, RR #5, Brandon, Manitoba
http://www.airmuseum.ca/
It is the only museum in the world dedicated uniquely to 130,000-plus aircrew personnel who trained under the
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
Stephen Hayter- Executive Director, provided information about the photo of Jimmy Mattern who made the first
crossing of the American - Canadian border to deliver a Hudson bomber on January 15th, 1940.
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Department of National Defense, Directorate of History and Heritage
2429 Holly Lane, Stacey Building, Ottawa, ON
http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/index-eng.asp
Warren Sinclair, Chief Archivist - Valerie Casbourn, Assistant Archivist, along with student archivists
Nicolas Lamothe, Liam Rafferty and Arthur Wells
Contact: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/adh-sdh/cl-lc/index-eng.asp
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Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
9280 Airport Road, Mount Hope, ON - L0R 1W0
http://www.warplane.comErin Napier, Curator
On John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport grounds
Neil McGavock, Co-ordinator of the museums Voices From The Past program
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Clayton-Knight Committee, Canada / USA, major recruiters American civilian air crews
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Dorval Historical Society
Centre communautaire Sarto Fournier, 1335 Lakeshore Drive, Dorval, Qubec - H9S 2E5
http://www.societehistoriquededorval.org/
and
http://montrealmosaic.com/organization/dorval-historical-society
Alain Jarry, historian - Beverley Rankin, Dorval City representative
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The Empire Club of Canada (Toronto branch)
Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario - M5J 1E3
http://www.empireclub.org/
In 1943, RAF FC leader, Air Vice-Marshal Marix spoke to this group on the size and scope of RAF FC and its accomplishments as
well as its strength in supporting administrative personnel in Dorval, Qubec
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Ferry Command Association
This group is no longer active, having held its last meeting in 2000, in Gander, NL, Canada - however, a
small amount of information from this inactive web site can be found through the
Way Back Machine at https://archive.org/web ...
By typing https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ferrycommand.com
onto the URL or address bar atop any web browser the following result shows up:
http://www.ferrycommand.com
UPPER LEFT: a partial screen shot of this page shows that the FC Association web pages have been saved 7 times
between February 1st, 2001 and June 2nd, 2002
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Flying for your life
http://www.flyingforyourlife.com/pilots/ww2/h/hodson/#.UZebMMq8-So
Source for Keith Hodson, net search result
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Gander Airport Historical Society (GAHS)
PO Box 238 - Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) - A1V 1W6
http://www.ganderairporthistoricalsociety.org/ blog - http://airportcoffeeshop.blogspot.com
Jan., 6th, 2015 Board of Directors: Dean Cull, Peter Hoyles, George Innes, Rev. Marion Pardy,
Jack Pinsent, Rick Stead and earlier, Robert Pelley
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Institut Historica Dominion Institut
2 Carlton Street, East Mezzanine, Toronto, ON - M5B 1J3
http://www.thememoryproject.com/about/
re Gordon Saunders The Memory Project, also provided a lead to Basil Hall
The Memory Project Archives is an initiative of the Historica-Dominion Institute and is made possible with generous funding
from Canadian Heritage.
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Juno Beach Centre
828 Legion Road, Burlington, Ontario - L7S 1T5
http://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/ferrying- aircrafts-overseas/
Centre Juno Beach - Voie des Franais Libres, BP 104 - 14470 Courseulles-sur-Mer, France
http://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/ferrying- aircrafts-overseas/
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Library and Archives Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx
Please see Page 27 for some web sites from Library and Archives Canada
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Andrew Elliott - Archivist - Economic, Security and Governance Acquisitions Division, Larry McNally, retired, Archivist:
Location of Sheldon Luck - Ted Beaudoin fonds, deposit of memorabilia and other material acquired over eight years of
research across Canada, along with recorded interviews (and transcripts) with Sheldon Luck, first Chief Pilot of Canadian Pacific
Air Lines - the genesis for the three books in this project and much material on the Royal Air Force Ferry Command / Transport
Command.
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Manitoba Legislative Library
Room 100 - 200 Vaughan St., Winnipeg, MB - R3C 1T5
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/leg-lib/
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Milton Historical Society
16 James St., Milton, Ontario - L9T 2P4
http://images.milton.halinet.on.ca/16105/data
Contact: Richard Laughton:
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NetLetter
http://www.thenetletter.org/
an Aviation based newsletter for Air Canada, TCA, CP Air, Canadian Airlines and all other Canadian
based airlines that once graced the Canadian skies.
Terry Baker, Editor - posted a request in NetLetter # 1320 - issued Tuesday, June 2nd, 2015: Perhaps some of you readers may
have had relatives within Canada`s civil aviation community who did join, either as full-pay employees of the British Air
Ministry - who funded the RAF FC, or were seconded to it by their own carrier. This notice may add new information.
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North Atlantic Aviation Museum
135 Trans-Canada Highway, PO Box 234, Gander, NL - A1V 1W6
http://northatlanticaviationmuseum.com/
Bob Briggs, President, Sandra Seaward, Executive Director
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Oakville Images - Oakville Public Library
Central branch location - 120 Navy St., Oakville, Ontario - L6J 2Z4
http://www.opl.on.ca/
Oakville Images is a partnership of the Oakville Public Library, Oakville Historical Society, Oakville Museum at Erchless
Estate, the Town of Oakville, Appleby College, Bronte Historical Society
provided photograph of John (Jack) Steen Wyndham, a Canadian army radio operator seconded to the RAF FC
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Panthon de l'Air et de l'espace du Qubec - Qubec Air and Space Hall of Fame
5365 Chemin de Chambly Saint-Hubert, Qubec J3Y 3N9
http://site.aerovision.org/
Pierre Thiffault, co-founder, Chairman of the selection committee from 2001 to 2010
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Virtual Wings
Oneonta, NY- USA
www.virtualwings.org
Paul F. Straney, re T9465, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees paint schemes
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Western Canadian Aviation Museum
958 Ferry Rd, Winnipeg, Manitoba - R3H 0Y8
http://www.royalaviationmuseum.com/
published in its Review magazine, James McClellands paper on the two-horse
hauling of bombers from North Dakota into Manitoba
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Denmark
Jacobus Maarschalkerweerd, lead to Capt. E. Stafford
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England
Imperial War Museums, 3 locations
IMW London, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, United Kingdom
IWM North, The Quays, Trafford Wharf Road, Trafford Park, Manchester, England - M17 1TZ
IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England - CB22 4QR
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
George Matt, designer - confirming a plaque commemorating - without an arrival date - the Spirit of Lockheed-Vega
Employees T9465 Hudson bomber gift from the Lockheed and Vega aircraft manufacturing plant and their 18,000
employees to the city of London: See also witnesses
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Royal Air Forces Association
117 Loughborough Road, Leicester - LE4 5ND
https://www.rafa.org.uk/
Tried to help author track Steve Bowsher, a RAF member who maintained a Ferry Command
Association web site for a number of years while posted in Canadas maritime province of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Royal Air Force Museum - 2 locations
Grahame Park Way, London and NW9 5LL - Cosford, Shifnal, Shropshire TF11 8UP
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/
Richard Simpson, Curator of Aircraft: Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees and penciled messages of goodwill on its panels
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Ireland
Brendan M. Rohan, Commandant - (Irish Army - Retired)
Corcreggan Mill, Dunfanaghy, County Donegal
Brendan set up a well-received 2014 tribute with a monument to a 1942 RAF FC Hudson
bomber aircrew, whose American pilot, Ernest Lloyd Leak, was forced to land on a local beach
due to low fuel. One of his crew members was Radio Operator and Air Gunner, Flight Sergeant Karl Edward Dzinkowski,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This event was attended by, among others, RCAF Lt. Col. Steve Allen, acting Canadian Military
Attach, and Dzinkowski`s daughter, Ramona Dzinkowski, Campbellville, Ontario, Canada all leading to a segment in Book 1
- Earth Angels Rising titled Irish Tribute to RAF FC trumps politics. Book 1 also contains a small extract from a book which he
intends to publish, titled On a Wing and a Prayer
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Northern Ireland
Belfast International Airport
http://www.belfastairport.com/
Ernie Cromie, Ulster Aviation Society, lead to Belfast International Airport - Deborah Harris and Meg Warner, Public Relations
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Scotland
Far North Aviation - http://www.farnorthaviation.co.uk
Wick Airport, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom - KW1 4QP
Andrew Bruce, owner - help with tracking T-9465, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees aircraft
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NATS
Prestwick, Scotland
http://www.nats.aero
From its web site: NATS is the UK's leading provider of air traffic control services. Each year we handle
2.2 million flights and 220 million passengers in UK airspace.
Brian Plant, private aviation researcher: background on importance of Prestwick airport to the RAF FC
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Prestwick Airport
Aviation House, Prestwick, KA9 2PL
http://www.glasgowprestwick.com
Danny Anderson - researcher
Bob Chandler - area chairman, RAFA Scotland and Northern Ireland
Alan Clark, airport media relations
Tom Macfadyen and Doug Maclean - researchers
Jim Riach, Editor: Prestwick Air Letter
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Scottish Saltaire Aircrew Association
http://www.aircrew-saltire.org
Jack Burgess, RAF FC Flight Engineer, 1-Tripper
age 92 at the time of writing, he has been a major supporter of this project - his web site contains 9 entries
d e a l i n g with the RAF FC. His memories can found in the following entries on the website, which is at
http://www.aircrew- saltire.org/ - they are Nos. 18, 56, 93, 120, 140, 163, 167, 180, 203. Entry No. 234 reports on
the development of this project.
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United States of America
http://www.flightglobal.com/
Flight Global magazine, a world-wide, top-of-the-line aviation publication, print and on-line
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Google newspapers
http://news.google.com/newspapers
a powerful source of highly reliable
newspaper articles dated between
1938 and 1945
dealing with the entire range of stories from the earliest days of what became the RAF FC to the end of WW II
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Lockheed Martin
Bethesda, Maryland
http://www.lockheedmartin.com
Karen Hagar and Laura Siebert, public relations______________________________________________
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
Hyde Park, NY
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/
Robert (Bob) Clark, Executive Director - concerning Churchills urgent 26-paragraph letter in December 1940 pleading for
help to American President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Trower Aviation
Scobey Airport, PO Box 530 Scobey, Montana, 59263
Charles Trower, owner, provided research help on Canadian / USA border airports used in 1939 and 1940
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Harry Ransom Center - The University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas - P.O. Drawer 7219m Austin, Texas - 78713-7219
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
Provided backgrounds on Jimmy Mattern and John Sleigh Pudney
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Internet Archive
300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118
internet archive http://archive.org/web/
From its web site archived 419, 000, 000, 000 pages archived since1996 truly an incredible internet resource
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Witnesses
Roderick B. Goff., weatherman in Gander, NL in December, 1940, witness to T9465, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees
runway crash, and author Crossroads of the World: Recollections from an Airport Town.
While not an eye-witness per se, he was told about the non-fatal crash. Roderick, now in his early 90s, was the
weather forecaster on duty the night of Saturday, Dec. 29th, 1940 when this aircraft tried to take off on a flight to
London, England. He had left his office for the night and in passing the air traffic control room, was told by the air
traffic controllers on duty about the crash that had just taken place.
Gerry Harmann, 1986, Sicamous, BC, lead to his father, Ivan
Ivan Harmann, 1986, Westbank, BC and RCAF Gander, NL
After reading the authors original manuscript covering the life of the late Sheldon Luck, Walking on Air, Mr.
Harmann said he was moved by the three chapters in that book dealing with the RAF FC and decided to donate a
broken propeller tip which he said he had sawed off from the wreckage of Hudson bomber, T9465, the Spirit of
Lockheed-Vega Employees, the morning after it crashed. He was an RCAF mechanic at the time, and had been
instructed to clean up the wreck on the runway on which T9465 had tried to take off for a flight to London,
England. The Lockheed and Vega aircraft manufacturing companies in Los Angeles, California, and their 18,000
employees had donated this aircraft to the folks of London as a morale-boosting gift. They knew that Londoners
were going through a merciless bombing by the German air force, which came to be known as the Blitz of
London. This aircraft did NOT arrive the following day, as had been hoped, but one bearing the same name, and
containing a few of the panels from the original - signed by some employees, showed up in Wick, Scotland in
March, 1941: its story is told in Book 1 of this quartet - Earth Angels Rising.
Elmer McClelland, Emerson, MB, Canada, child witness of the January 1940 horse-towing of bombers from USA to Canada
this was a lead from his cousin, retired Winnipeg school teacher James McClelland
Media: film, television, theatres, magazines, newspapers, publishers, etc

The BBC, numerous documentaries on various RAF FC accomplishments and profiles on some personnel
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The British Newspaper Archive
London, England
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Christian Halgar - helped establish the fact that no newspaper in England or Scotland reported the arrival of the Spirit of
Lockheed - Vega Employees in December 1940, nor any time in 1941
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British Path
http://www.britishpathe.com/
various newsreel items over the years, for movie theatres world-wide
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CBC
Doc Zone - http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/ Ferry Command, The Forgotten Flyers of WW II, 2006
Cowichan News Leader, Cowichan (Vancouver Island), BC, Canada - Peter W. Rusland, reporter
Gander Beacon, Gander, NL, Canada - Brandon Anstey, Reporter - Kevin Higgins - Editor
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Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, ON, Canada: archives
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John OGroat Journal and Caithness Courrier
Wick, Scotland:
http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/Home/
Elizabeth-Anne Mackay, Deputy Editor
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Newspapers: another remarkable searching resource web site subscription, archives millions of newspapers world-wide
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Pope Productions
St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
http://popeproductions.ca
Produced a 4-hour mini-series Above and Beyond, 2006, about the RAF FC From the web site: Pope Productions is a St.
Johns based company specializing in feature film, documentary and television formats. Founded in 1998 by Paul Pope,
it has grown to be the most well-known independent production company in NL.
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Contributors and Writers

Laura Anderson, reporter, North Shore News, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, story on Ken McClelland
Peter Berry, Prestwick, Scotland, author (2005) Prestwick Airport and Scottish Aviation
Arthur Bishop, son of famed Canadian WW I pilot Billy Bishop, a pilot in his own right who made quite a name for himself,
author of Unsung Courage 16 pages of this book deal with the RAF FC
John Croft, Americas Editor, Flight Global magazine
Ernest K. Gann, author, Island in the Sky
Joey Gill, Boys of Spring Productions, Toronto, ON, Canada,
Robert Boudreau, director, writer, producer Boys of Spring, planned movie on Clayton-Knight Committee This
committee recruited thousands of American civilians, serving as both air and ground crews, most flying with and for
the RCAF and some with the RAF FC Charles Savage, Producer, Working title: The Clayton Knight Committee (USA)
F.J. Hatch, Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 1939-1945
Trish Lewis, blogger, Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA - trishymouse@gmail.com - Blogs: St. Vincent Memories Scribblings from Memory - Prairie Woman - Our Mothers - Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured
James McClelland, Innisfil, ON, Canada - former teacher in Manitoba, local historian
contributor to Earth Angels Rising, and documentary film producer on local Manitoba histories
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T. M. McGrath, Ottawa, ON, A History of Canadian Airports, Transport Canada, Ottawa
Donald McVicar, RAF FC pioneering, frontier-busting pilot, author of 12 books on the RAF FC
W. OBrien, Australia - Murder in Ferry Command - 1942 fiction: murder mystery book based on the RAF FCpublished by NEA Service Inc. - Newspaper Enterprise Association, founded by Edward Willis Scripps, later becoming
United Press International after merging with the Hearst organization - published this book in serial format in Australia,
USA and in Canada - with Flesherton, ON being one of those places - see Page 25 for another mystery book within ferry
commands.
Griffith Taffy Powell, Air Commodore, C.B.E., RAF FC, author, Per Ardua ad Astra,
the story of the Atlantic Air Ferry and Ferryman - From Ferry Command to Silver City
Terry Shoptaugh, retired professor / historian, Minnesota, USA, contributor to Earth Angels Rising
Joyce Spring, author Daring Lady Flyers, some ATA women pilots - lead to Elspeth Russell
Frank Tibbo, historian, Gander Beacon columnist, Gander, NL, Canada:
William (Bill) VanDerKloot - Atlanta, GA, USA - http://vanderkloot.com/
Film-maker, Flying the Secret Sky - about his father Bill VanDerKloot
Carol (Mercer) Walsh, writer - The Beacon Supplement, July 31st, 1991
convincing England that Gander, NL was the only good place from which to launch aircraft deliveries
Shalto Watt, RAF FC, pilot, author, Ill Take the High Road
John Butler (Sammy) Woods, author, Uncharted Skies - a lead from Kathy Mitchell and Barbara Swanston
Humphrey Wynn, author, Forged in War, A history of Royal Air Force Transport Command 1943-1947
Bill Zuk, historian, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Others - some of the 125+ men and women featured in these books
Ernest Allen, Welland, ON - BCATP, 1-Tripper, drew long straw, took boat to England, founder - Wellands Seaway Mall
Mike Allen, son of Ernest, retired 2014 from Seaway Mall holding company; provided his fathers information
M. B. "Jock" Barclay TCA Captain on RAF FC flight, a lead from Harry Cooper
Howard Baker, Port Hawkesbury, NS - deceased, Jan. 30th, 2013 at age 99, RAF FC, radio operator
D.C.T. Bennett, leader of original group of civilian aircrews, from England to USA and Canada, 1940
Willie Bidell Wing Commander, RAF FC early, lost at sea, 2nd pilot for Commando - aircraft assigned to Churchill
Louis Bisson RAF FC pioneer, top bush pilot, became a priest, bridge between Montral and Laval, QC bears his name his
frontier-expanding flights provided new access across remote regions of Canada to develop air routes overseas
Vicki Bouchard, Victoria, BC, brother Wayne, in New Westminster, BC and cousin Garry Stockdill, Yorkshire, England
Frederick Bowhill, Sir, Air Chief Marshall, RAF Ferry Command
Alex Bowie RAF FC Navigator, information from Scottish Saltire Branch ACA # 162
Bradbrook Captain, and others, re a fatality
Roslyn Lloyd George Browne RAF FC, see Keith Thompson
Terence Malcolm Bulloch, RAF - seconded to RAF FC as 1-Tripper, made many flights later
Dennis Burke, Dublin, leads to Wyndham and others below
Bob Care, Oakville, ON, b.care@sympatico.ca, his dad, Fred, was one of Commandos pilots.
Commando ferried Prime Minister Winston Churchill - SEE VanDerKloot. After WW II, Fred became
an early business partner with Tim Horton, of Hortons fame selling new cars with Tim before Tim
sold his first donut. Bob generously provided a high-resolution copy for this book. Cover at right: No.
90, THE STORY OF NO. 45 GROUP, ROYAL AIR FORCE, a rare, now out-of-print book of which only
500 copies were produced.
Observation - the words Ferry and Command do not appear on the cover of this publication, which is considered one of
two official histories of the operation.
Henry R. Carlyle, OBE, American, RAF FC pilot, Dorion, QC, radio operator, DVA, Canada web site
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England
Jacqueline (Jackie) Cochrane - the only woman pilot welcomed in the cockpit as a co-pilot during a delivery flight
Bob Coffman, RAF FC, 2nd pilot, lost with Ron Snow and rescued with him, from Alex Bowie
A. Colato, RAF FC, Flight Engineer, aircrew on Marco Polo
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Bob Conger, Atlantic Bridge book source, Aeroknow
Harry Cooper, from NetLetter, described February 1944 RAF FC flight back to Canada
John Cormack, Wick, Scotland
Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees material, link with Elizabeth-Ann McKay at John OGroats and Caithness Journal
Diane Cranstoun, Alberta, photo of cemetery, RAF FC crash in Scotland
Pete Dawson, Vancouver Island, tape-recorded interview with Gord Stemson
Walt Davidson, RAF FC, flew with Willie Bidell
George G. Denton, friend of Alec Dame and Sheldon Luck
Punch Dickens, ATFERO - remembered Sheldon Luck, as noted in Sheldons two biographies, Walking on Air and Pilot of
Fortune
Murray Benjamin Dilley, RAF FC, Pilot, flew Hudson AM864
L. B. Doherty, civilian RAF FC radio operator
Leonard Dorion, radio operator, from Veterans Affairs Canada web site, lead to Henry Carlyle
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/video-gallery/video/7816
Elizabeth Easton, wife Upton, RAF FC weather forecasting
"Kelly" Edmison, 2nd Captain, RAF FC return flight, see above: Cooper, Barclay
Harold E. Emigh, RAF FC pilot - later was Trojan aircraft builder in Colorado, built 85 airplanes
Louise Erdely, lead to Alexander Albulet, a family friend - d. July 2013 - Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: R/O with the RAF FC
William Erdelyi, - R/O with RAF FC, Louises father-in-law
George P. Evans, OBE - from Thea Strassburg, uncle to Charlie Kotsaftis
Captain Evans was the pilot of airplane named Marco Polo; he often flew with Don McVicar who credited him as being
the best instrument pilot ever Captain Evans plane disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean on July 4th,1945
H. J. Farley, Flight Lieutenant, RAF FC, on the Marco Polo flight to Chunking, China
Bill Fernie, Wick, Scotland - see Caithness.org group - Hilland Primary School
Allen Flowers crewed with - see above - Willie Bidell - 1st Liberator delivery
LLoyd Freckleton, RAF FC pilot
Karen Frew-Thompson, Adairsville, GA, US - lead to Keith Rodgers - see below
Val Frost, Ottawa:
Father, David Harry Archibald, and Mother, Winnifred (Pat) Keegan-Archibald, TCA, seconded to RAF FC Dorval, QC
Liz Fryer, Kitchener, ON, Canada - daughter of Art Jones, Waterloo, ON, sister of Alan Jones
Michele Garrigan
Dick Gentry
Barry M. Goldwater, died in 1988, aged 89. The existence of other allied ferry or ferrying commands often confused
those searching for information on the RAF FC. Goldwater had been assigned as a pilot to an organization which was
called Ferry Command, but it was not the RAF FC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater:
In an obituary on his death, which Washington Post staff writer Bart Barnes wrote on Page A01 of its Saturday,
May 30th, 1998 edition, and which also appeared on-line at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater30.htm
During World War II, Mr. Goldwater tried but was unable to get a combat flying assignment. He did get an
assignment to the Ferry Command, a newly formed unit made up mostly of overage pilots who delivered
aircraft and supplies to war zones all over the world, and he spent most of the war flying between the United
States and India, via the Azores and North Africa or South America, Nigeria and Central Africa.
Hugh (Hughie) Green, England TV game show host was RCAF pilot, seconded to RAF FC
Carlisle Edgar Grafton
Basil Hall, RAF FC Captain
James Stewart Hansen, RAF FC radio operator, seconded from RAAF
Nora Hansen, Barrie, ON, Canada: provided background on her Father, James and introduced Art Jones to this project
John Frederick (Arthur) Hayes, RAAF - India, early 1944, where he was seconded to RAF FC
Keith Louis Bate Hodson
Joan Hunter, daughter, Cyril Joseph Stamp
Oliver Simon Huss, RAF FC Captain, d, North Dakota, USA, 30 trips, lost at sea Monday, Nov.-30th, 1942 - a lead from
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D. Jacklin, a member of the RAF Bircham Newton Memorial Project
Adele Jardine, Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, lead to Edison MacLennan
Alan Jones, Kitchener, ON, son of Art Jones
Art Jones, 92, RAF FC, R/O, Waterloo, ON, seconded from Royal Australian Air Force
trained under British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as 1-Tripper, joined pool of RAF FC radio operators
Mickey Jones, friend of Arthur Symons, RAF FC, Caribbean, a BOAC pilot
Kirk Kerkorian, Los Angeles, CA - RAF FC pilot - b June 6th, 1917, d June 16th, 2015 - 10 days into his 98th year
Ed Kern, RAF FC, flew with Bidell
Charlie Kotsaftis, Aunt is Thea Strassburg, uncle is George Evans, Charlie provided fascinating write-up on George
Gerry LaFlamme (maintenance), Ferry Command Association, Canadair
Ed Landsell, many pix, RAF FC various bases
Ken Lebeau, RAF FC, crewed with Willie Bidell, 1st Liberator delivery
Albert Leeward, brother of Ray Leeward, also RAF FC pilot
John Leeward, son of Ray Leeward
Linda Raye Leeward-Zibelli, daughter of Ray Leeward, see Joe Zibelli
Ray Leeward, RAF FC Pilot - the Leeward brothers were pioneers in converting used bombers to business aircraft in the USA
Frank Leigh
Malcolm Lewis, Wolverhampton, England, through Wick re Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees - RAF Squadron #269
Al John Lilly, RAF FC test pilot, later chief test pilot, Canadair when it was owned by the Canadian government and
the first Canadian jet pilot to break the sound barrier on Wed., August 9th, 1950, over Montral, QC, Canada
Littlejohn First Officer RAF FC, lead from Alex Bowie
George Lothian, early ATFERO pilot, later Trans-Canada Air Lines
Paul Lowman, Danish pilot, in 1938 he taught a lion how to aqua-plane, made headlines
Roderick MacGregor, from Burke, Paul Newman information
Arthur Reginald MacWilliams, from Terry Burke, Ireland - Paul Newman information
Ken McClelland, seconded to RAF FC from RCAF, posted with his new bride, Edith Aitchison, in Nassau
Edison MacLennan, lead from his niece, Adele Jardine
Ernest Archibald "PeeWee" McNab, Squadron Leader, seconded to RAF FC July 21st, 1942, pilot - DFC, OBE
NOTE FROM: http://flyingforyourlife.com/pilots/ww2/mc/mcnab/ website
Other Canadians, members of the Royal Air Force, have already distinguished themselves and won coveted
decorations McNab is the first member of the R.C.A.F. to take to the skies against the Germans in this war.
Patrick McTaggart-Cowan, respectfully known as Dr. McFog, ATFERO - RAF FC
noted Canadian meteorologist, in Gander, NL
Roland Masse RAF FC, 1943 radio operator, lead from Gander Airport Historical Society - GAHS
Jimmy Mattern, delivered the Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees T9465 to Canada on Wed., Dec. 25th, 1940,
and also delivered the 1st and 1,000th Hudson bombers to Canada
C.P. Meagher RAF FC, radio operator, crew with Marco Polo
Kathy Mitchell, daughter, Gordon Upton
Bill Moore RAF FC pilot joined 1943, Lebanon, FL, USA
Dominique Agrinier Moulign, France - her father was Jean Moulign
Jean Moulign, France - piloted 75 crossings as an aircrew member of the RAF FC
Erik Douglas Nilson, one of early civilians hired by Canadian Pacific Railways ATFERO
shift supervisor and civilian navigator / mechanic, one of few who told his family that he was sworn to secrecy, so he did
not tell his family much at all about his service with the RAF FC - see Linda Nilson-Rogers below
Linda Nilson-Rogers, Mississippi Mills, ON - Canada, lead to her father, Erik Douglas Nilson
Leif Kaare Pay, from Paul Newman
Clyde Edward Pangborn, Senior RAF FC captain, delivered 170 bombers
Kenneth Albert Graham Prater, RAF FC, Warrant Officer, pilot, died in take-off crash in Cornwall, England, 1945
Jim Reid at www.War44.com - his grandfather delivered fighters and Lancaster bombers
Ian Roberts - NJ, USA, paramedic, son of Geoffrey A. S. Roberts,
Geoffrey A. S. Roberts, American RAF FC pilot - one of the pilots assigned to the AL504 Commando and
Churchill on a number of occasions; began as a wireless operator for RAF FC
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Alan Rodgers, RAF FC, Flight Engineer, Otley, Yorkshire, England, the navigator on his aircraft was killed by
German anti-aircraft guns as his plane neared the coast of Normandy; its First Officer was wounded
Keith Rodgers brother to Alan Rodgers, who researched about his brother, see Karen Frew-Thompson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, American President at start of WW II
Ellspeth Russell, from Pierre Thiffault, she joined the ATA in Canada
Anne Sarsfield, civilian whose dad, John Redmond Sarsfield, was in RAF FC
John Redmond Sarsfield, RAF FC
Gordon Saunders RAF FC, navigator, from The Contact, RCAF 8 Wing, Trenton, ON, Canada
Alex Scott, RAF Squadron 269 in Wick, saw Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees - signatures on inside panels
Bud Scouten, RAF FC, later Canadair test pilot
John R. Scott, (Maj., retired) 25 years RCAF, National Governor Air Cadet League of Canada, Chair Ontario Aviation Committee
Jim Scouten, son of Bud Scouten
Larry Sellick, Ottawa, ON - RAF FC, instrument technician, RAF FC 1942 - 1945,
and the ONLY teenager out of 14 teens recruited to serve an apprenticeship within the RAF FC
Owen Sherry, Sat-July 4th, 1942 - fatal Mitchell Bomber FL 214 crash
Cyril Joseph Stamp, father of Joan Hunter
M. J. C. Stanley, Wing Commander, seconded to RAF FC from RAF
E. Stafford RAF FC, Captain, lead from Jacobus Maarschalkerweerd, Denmark
Gord Stemson, RAF FC - aircrew, from Peter Dawson, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada - concerning an air search by aircraft crew
on a Return Ferry Service - RFS - flight, looking for the German battleship Bismarck
George Stockdill, served with RAF FC in Gander, NL, Canada, and in Bermuda from his daughter, Theah Strassburg,
St. Louis, Missouri, aunt to Charlie Kotsaftis. Her grandfather was George Evans; she wrote about him on her
Facebook Page, March 15th, 2014: My grandfather, George Evans, flew for the RAF Ferry Command. His plane
disappeared into the Atlantic on July 4, 1945. Neither his plane nor any remnants of it were ever found.
Barbara Swanston, Campbell River, BC, Canada, leads to her dad, Kenneth Charles Young
Charles Marinus Sundby RAF FC Captain, promoted March 1943, 600 trips into China
Eric Charles Sundby, nephew of Charles
Arthur Randy Symons, pilot seconded from RCAF, youngest of
three Symons brothers who served with Ferry Command, friend of Mickey Jones, RAF FC, Caribbean
Don Teel, OBE, RAF FC Captain, info from Alex Bowie
Pierre Thiffault, Montral QC, Canada, lead to ATA women pilot, Elspeth Russell
Pierre also provided information about a young RAF FC employee who fell from the bomb bay of a bomber, onto ice
on Lake St. Louis - now Lac-St-Louis, QC, soon after the bomber took off from nearby Dorval airport, and survived.
Keith Thompson, RAF FC, Flying Officer
Robert Toombs, White Rock, BC, Canada, collector of RAF FC mailed envelopes
Harry Traynor RAF FC Captain
Myros Tuchak, RAF FC- Flying Officer, commended for valuable services - lead from Air Force Association of Canada
Gordon Upton, Navigator, RAF FC, seconded from the RAAF, married Elizabeth Easton
Kathy Mitchell, Australia, Gordon Uptons daughter, provided the information
John Varner, Special Collections & Archives, Auburn University, Auburn, AL,
Ralph Brown Draughon Library Richard K. Smith papers
Bill Walker Canadian Military Aircraft Serials, http://www.rwrwalker.ca
Dorothy White, wife of late George White, FAC FC radio operator
Wright, RAF FC, FL Engineer, aircrew on Marco Polo
John Steen Wyndham, RAF FC, R/O, seconded from the Canadian Infantry Corps, Boucherville, QC and Gander, NL
Kenneth Charles Young, trained under the BCATP in Canada, seconded from Royal Australian Air Force
to RAF FC, from daughter Barbara Swanston
Joe Zibelli, put me in contact with his former wife, Linda Raye Leeward-Zibelli, leading to the Leeward family
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Known RAF FC only, some done, others to follow

John Affleck, Flight Engineer, Commando
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Alexander Albulet, civilian from Louise Erdely
http://gmic.co.uk/
Herbert Lawson Blakely - Britain and Canada
Moderator, Gentlemans Military Interest Club - Great Britain & Commonwealth Realms
Canada, New Zealand & Australia Medals & Militaria
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Other sources
Gerald Champniss, RAF FC, First Officer, flew with civilian RAF FC pilots Bendall, Dalton, Dobbin,
Fitzgerald and Newkirk, and with RAF FCs # 231 Telecommunications Squadron, from his son, Kim Clark Champniss
Kin Clark Champniss, Canadian television personality and musician, VJ for MuchMusic in the 1980s
Carl Christie, author, Ocean Bridge: The History of RAF Ferry Command - Oct. 11th, 1997
Clarence Rudolf Dobbin
Art Jones - Waterloo, ON, 92 - seconded from the Royal Australian Air Force to RAF FC as radio operator
O.P. Jones, RAF FC Captain, Chief Pilot, pre-war Imperial Airways
Kirk Kerkorian, Los Angeles, CA, no longer with us
lured to Canada by advertisement placed by the international Clayton-Knight Committee
Louis Lang, one of the few veterans still with us, born 1922, radio operator, RAF FC he
successfully waged a 20+ year-long battle with bureaucracy to obtain full rights and privileges by 1980 for Ferry
Command air crews and all others who served on aircraft in other capacities - said he was amazed to learn in the
fall of 2014 that Canadas Minister of Veterans Affairs did not even know about the RAF FC.
Sheldon Luck, First Chief Pilot, Canadian Pacific Air Lines, delivery pilot RAF FC, later transferred to
#231 Telecommunications Squadron operational division of RAF FC earned Kings Commendation; became
known as Churchills personal mailman wherever Churchill flew out of England, subject of two biographies: Walking
on Air (1986); a new version re-titled Pilot of Fortune, published as an expanded book in 2009: three chapters of his
service within the RAF FC appear in Book 1 - Earth Angels Rising.
Tommy Mahan
Don McVicar - probably the most prolific pilot / author to come out of the RAF FC
Donna McVicar-Kazo, Don McVicars daughter, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
works with her brother Gordon and her daughter Christianna Cannon in publishing web sites about her father, along
with publishing updated and new versions of his books dealing with the RAF FC - More on the next page
Peter Monahan, source for Blakely
Mowat RAF FC, Flight Officer, crewed with Willie Bidell
Frederick Scrafton - See Ron Snow
Tim Sims
Ron Snow, Radio Operator, RAF FC - Ancaster, ON
Rick Smith, source for Crafton
George Stockdill
George White RAC FC, radio operator, his wife is Dorothy
John Steen (Jack) Wyndham radio operator, seconded as a navigator from Canadian army
Greg, grandson to Wyndham
Ted Barris, lead from John Scott, prolific author on Canadas role in WW II
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Miscellaneous
From Terry Bakers NETLETTER, item dated December 3rd, 1944, in the Lancaster TCA-100 of the Canadian Government
Trans- Atlantic Air Service. The TCA pilots were Captain M. B. "Jock" Barclay with 2nd Captain being "Kelly" Edmison.
John Fisher, from Jock Barclay, TCA captain, concerning airmail service in support of RAF FC, 1944
From Gordon McVicar, other RAF FC personnel, from his website - http://www.donmcvicar.com/survivor.htm
Capt. Don Teel, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Capt. Don Douglas, Richmond, BC, Canada
Capt. Paul L. Lowman, S. Miami, F/L (RCAF)
Capt. Herb Huston, Long Island, NY, USA
Art Teulon, Ft. Lauderdale, F/L
FINDING AIDS Earth Angels Rising - Ted Beaudoin, September, 2015

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FL R/N John J. McGrail, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Jerry LaGrave, Rawdon, QC, Canada F/E
Tom Colohan, Dorval, QC- Nav (RCAF)
A.J. Fry, Long Sault, ON 1/O
Fred Hotson, Toronto, ON
Gwen Heinrich, Kirkland, QC
Capt. A.F. Jarrett, Charleston, WV, USA
F/E Frank Staskow, Pointe Claire, QC
Alex Reeve, Langley, BC
Tony Westmacott, Victoria, BC
Don Clarkson, Saltspring Island, BC
Glynn Jones, Sydney, BC
R/N Norm Grover, Ottawa, ON
Bill Baker
Jeff Heinrich R/N (RCAF)
Bob Walker, Hudson Heights, QC R/O
W.R. Lohnes, BC
Capt. LLoyd Freckleton, Mission, BC R/O

Jean Lalande, Maple Ridge, BC
Capt. F/L (RCAF) Allan G. McCrae, Etobicoke, ON
Nav. F/L (RCAF) E.E.
(Ted) Biss, Mississauga, ON F/L (RCAF)
Edgar (Ed) Gordon Levy, Cornwall, ON
G.A. (Bud) Heck, New Smyrna Beach, FL
F/O Jim Ross
Norman Lucas, Vankleek Hill, ON
Henry Flory
Andre Duchesnay, Montral, QC
F/L R/N (R.C.A.F.) Art Manwaring, Toronto, ON
Herb Huston
Art Jarrett Oonah McFee
John McGrail
C.N. Slim Munson
Bill Whipps
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RCAF Association
Royal Canadian Air Force Association web page - http://rcafassociation.ca/uploads/airforce/2009/07/ALPHA- GI.GL.html:
Frank S. Adams, Crew Chief, RAF FC
George Brown, R/O, RAF FC
Richard Coates, R/O, RAF FC
John McIntyre, R/O, RAF FC
Alec Paddon Gibbs, RAF FC, Flight Sergeant, June 1943 to August 1945
George MacDougall Gillespie, Squadron Leader, RAF FC, June 1943 to August 1945 (instructor and flight commander)
William Lorne Gillespie, RAF FC
L.H. Warriner, awarded AFC for Ferry Command
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http://www.google.ca/cse?cx=partner-pub3123997639891114:6450456476&ie=UTF8&q=Ferry+Command&sa=Search&ref=&gws_rd=cr&ei=vg_7VPjqG8KdygTkk4KIBA#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Fer
After entering the words ferry command into a search engine, this web site links the searcher to the North Atlantic
Aviation Museum web site dedicated to preserving one of the worlds few remaining Hudson bombers. The museum
is in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Donna McVicar-Kazo
donna@donnamcvicarkazo.comDonna McVicar-Kazo, Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
USA: Her father is Don McVicar, of the more prolific pioneer civilian pilots of the
RAF FC. She has spent many years making certain that her dads books on the
RAF FC not only be preserved, but re-published in their entirety. One of her web
sites containing many never-before- published photographs, graphics and other
memorabilia is at
http://www.donnamcvicarkazo.com/aviationgallery.html

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The photo at right - bottom of previous page - is the first one which appears on this website, showing, from
left: Don McVicar, D.C.T. Bennett, C.H. 'Punch' Dickens, and Griffith 'Taffy' Powell, skilled pilots and
aviation heroes, at the 1980 Ferry Command Reunion in Dorval, QC, Canada. She, along with her brother,
Gordon McVicar - www.donmcvicar.com, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada, and her daughter,
Christianna Cannon, work in unison in preserving her Dads works.
Photo above left My dad, Don McVicar, with his very own De Havilland Mosquito which he raced across the US in pursuit of the
Bendix Trophy, 1948. He wrote about this adventure, which almost took his life, in his book, Mosquito Racer published by Airlife
- now out of print. My mission is to republish all 13 of Dad's highly regarded aviation memoirs, first on the Kindle format, and one
day, as bound books again.
CAUTION: All of Ms McVicar-Kazos material is protected by copyright - - and permission is needed from her for
commercial reproduction by others: commercial production means the financial payment to a third party for using her graphic
and / or text for private financial gain. W hen it comes to copying her material for personal use, it would be courteous
to seek her consent to download into a personal home computer.
NB: Please see below for Donnas new publishing venture on Fathers Day, Sun, June 21st, 2015
concerning all copyright material

The google.com search engine web page address below shows many Royal Air Force - Ferry Command images many of these
images - graphics, photographs and video clips - are in the public domain and can be used for commercial purposes however,
its highly recommended that a searcher carefully review any graphic / photograph, or video clip to determine whether what is
shown is in fact public domain or copyrighted.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=ferry+command&biw=1085&bih=579&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=y8
ATVebCCYTlggTXuoQI&sqi=2&ved=0CFMQsAQ
The yahoo.com and bing.com search engines yield similar results
https://ca.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEV2gg9xNVXpIAaIHrFAx.?p=Ferry+Command&fr=yfp-t684&fr2=piv-web
NOTE: The vast majority of information which can be obtained from internet searching is truly free of charge a number of
exceptions exist however with some archives and aviation /
military museums, such as the Imperial War Museum in
England, and possibly, the RAF historical section.
RIGHT: a snip shot of the above google.com URL showing
the words FERRY COMMAND in the google search engine
bar, and a small hint at whats inside this particular page.
ALSO NOTE: For those
new to search engines,
requests of a search engine can be made by
keyboarding UPPER and / or lower case, as the
programming language used by search engines ignores
UPPER and lower case and treats every request made as
if it had been keyboarded in lower case.

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Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador: worlds ONLY museum to be dedicated exclusively to the RAF Ferry Command
North Atlantic Aviation Museum
135 Trans-Canada Highway, P.O. Box 234, Gander, NL - A1V 1W6
Telephone: (709) 256-2923 - Fax: (709) 256-8561
Email: info@northatlanticaviationmuseum.com
About Robert (Bob) Whitfield Briggs
From his early years supporting bush operations with Maritime Central Airways in Greenland and
northern Canada during DEW Line construction, Robert Whitfield Briggs joined Eastern Provincial
Airways (EPA) at Gander in 1954. Already an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer, he obtained his
Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) license in 1955 and B license in 1965. He added his radio
operators license and private pilot license, and eventually served as AME flight engineer, AME crew chief, planning manager,
quality assurance manager and director of technical services for EPA.
By the time he left EPA in 1979, Bob had accumulated a raft of AME endorsements, ranging from the WWII-era PBY-5A flying
boat to Boeings then-newest 737. He launched Briggs Aero Limited in 1980, offering line maintenance, repair and overhaul
services for all types of aircraft, from the classic bush planes of yesteryear, through the supersonic Concorde and 'Beluga'
Super Transporter to the Boeing 777. Briggs Aero held contracts with airlines across the U.S., Europe and Africa.
Bob served as instructor for the aircraft maintenance program at the College of the North Atlantic, Gander Campus, from
1986 through 1990. He is a past recipient of the Earl Blakney Aviall Canada Ltd. Award for outstanding performance in aircraft
maintenance and, in 2004, was inducted into the Canadian Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Hall of Fame.
He officially retired in 2011 after 60 years in the aviation industry, but remains active in the community. He has served on
the Board of the North Atlantic Aviation Museum since 1987 and currently sits as its President. He has also held board
positions with the Gander and Area Chamber of Commerce, Gander Rod and Gun Club and Aircraft Maintenance Engineers
Association, and memberships in the Aeronautics and Space Institute and Canadian Rangers.
In 2013, the Town of Gander named Briggs Street in the Eastgate subdivision in his honour, recognizing his lifetime
contribution to the aerospace industry and his dedication to preserving and promoting Gander's aviation heritage.
Soon major changes will show up at the museum, A on
the google maps photo at right - located a short distance
west of the Gander International Airport
http://northatlanticaviationmuseum.com/atlanticferry-command/
LEFT a photo from one of the museums web pages
showing its Lockheed Hudson bomber, staff and
supporters http://www.ganderairport.com/about-
giaa/history-growth/
From the museums main web site: Ganders beginnings date back to 1936 when the construction of the international airport
began in earnest. By the end of 1937, a 900-person team had begun construction. A few years later the airfield had four paved
runways - the largest airport in the world at the time. On January 11, 1938, the first airplane landed at Gander. It was a Fox
Moth VO-ADE, operated by Imperial Airways for the Newfoundland Government and flown by Captain Douglas Fraser.
By the outbreak of war in September 1939, Gander was ready for civil operations. The value of a functioning airport in such a
strategic position was unique. Gander was the only operative airport in the Maritimes.
Thus, the airport at Gander became the main staging point for the movement of Allied aircraft to Europe during World War
II. Ganders location on the Great Circle Route made it an ideal wartime refuelling and maintenance depot for bombers flying
overseas.
Top left of page: Bob sent a sketch of what the proposed building could look like - it will be named
Ferry Command Memorial Hall.

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NOTE: Canadas Aviation Hall of Fame - http://cahf.ca/

The Belt of Orion Award for Excellence was founded by Canada's
Aviation Hall of Fame in 1988 to honour organizations, groups,
societies or associations who have made outstanding contributions to
the advancement of aviation in Canada. When the manuscripts are
completed, copies will be sent to Canadas Aviation Hall of Fame at
6426 - 40 Ave., Wetaskiwin, Alberta Canada, with a request that the names of the civilians and seconded military
personnel who served in the RAF FC be entered into the Halls prestigious Belt of Orion Award for Excellence. If any
group deserves such an accolade, it is the men and women featured and presented in this work.
______________
About Frank Tibbo: The following bio-bit - in italics - about Frank is quoted from a November 2005
review of his 206-page book, Charlie Baker George, the story of a Sabena Airlines DC-4 crash in
Newfoundland in 1946, which claimed the lives of 26 of its 44 passengers his life has been involved
with aviation. He has worked with Aviation Meteorological Services and spent most of his working life as
an Air Traffic Controller. He first became aware of the mysterious crash of Sabena OOCBG while working
in the Control Tower of Gander International Airport. The more he learned about flying (Commercial Pilots Licence in
1969), the more intriguing the case of the Sabena became. He has been a newspaper columnist since 1992 and has
written more than 600 articles on his favourite subject - Aviation.
For those interested in the comings and goings of the RAF FC, Frank has compiled
a digitized 409-page history of Gander, which is located in the Canadian province
of Newfoundland and Labrador, on Canadas North Atlantic Ocean coast. It
contains more than 200 newspaper columns which he wrote for the Gander
Beacon since 1992. These well-written, informative, and intriguing columns
contain much information concerning the Royal Air Forces Ferry Command
operation, right from its earliest set-up days in 1940.
It contains a total of 67 separate entries dealing exclusively with the Royal Air
Forces Ferry Command operation - from its earliest beginnings, and 116
separate entries summarizing the Royal Canadian Air Forces contributions to
the Gander airport, the surrounding community of families and the RAF FC.
Englands Prime Minister Winston Churchill once described Newfoundland as the
largest aircraft carrier in the worlds oceans. Quite an accolade for this island,
which was a former colony of the United Kingdom. When it became Canadas 10th
province on Thursday, March 31st, 1949, it was re-named Newfoundland and
Labrador.
All proceeds from the sales of Franks 10 Mb PDF document - which downloads easily as an e-mail attachment - are
going to the Central Northeast Health Foundation. All of these articles and photographs are available on-line from Frank
by contacting him and donating $10.00 to the Central Northeast Health Foundation. If you are interested in obtaining
a copy, mail off a cheque - payable to the Central Northeast Health Foundation, along with a note containing your e-mail
address, to Frank Tibbo, 37 Raynham Ave., Gander, NL - A1V 2J3. Or you can send him an e-mail at
franktibbo@nl.rogers.com and he will get back to you.

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Note: The file is copyright-protected - - by Frank, and must be for your own personal use ONLY - not commercial
reproduction it will be e-mailed to you as soon as your cheque is received.
A hint of some of his stories besides those of the RAF FC: Fighter aircraft and turrs; a submarine in Gander
Lake; bomber at the bottom of Gander Lake; Ganders first child; flight refueling; McNamaras; mining the
runways; sabotage; spies; The Bismarck; German aircraft overhead; Pigeon Squadron; jumping without
parachutes; the Commonwealth Graves; Ganders Pal the Heroic Dog; Joeys Pigs; Sunday school student
in Jail; Censored Mail; bombs dropping on Soulis Pond; Lancaster tragedy; Lord Haw Haw; liquor and
goats; Ganders UFO; Sabena crash; Honey Bucket incident; Ganders historic Houses; Blue Jay; WV-2 crash; the Czech
crash; Arrow Air; plans to invade Gander; Union East; $50 for a building lot; murder at the Airport; The Airport Club
and many others.
Heres an interesting one - from Project Gutenberg: a free, 80-page on-line mystery e-book
for the young ones today - or for anyone who likes reading a good adventure / mystery
this one dealing with the allied air force ferrying operations, and the roles women - and
some men - played in ferrying aircraft within their own countries. No allied air force of WW
II allowed women to ferry fighter aircraft and bombers overseas, thus forcing the creation of
what became known as an Air Transport Auxiliary - ATA - unit, ferrying aircraft within
individual nations or from their manufacturers, as in the case of England, to various theatres of war.
One of the chapters in this quartet of books is dedicated to the valiant women who did their very best to try and
convince the all-male air crew component, and senior commanders of the Royal Air Force and its Ferry Command that
women pilots were the equal to male pilots when it came to flying multi-engine bombers and fighter aircraft: but the
mind-set and temper of the times was not what it has become today, where gender equality is now a natural given. That
chapter, which is in Book 1 - Earth Angels Rising - is titled No place for a lady in the cockpit.
What is the Gutenberg Project? https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:About
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael
Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues
to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.
And, from its web page, its Mission Statement is as simple as A, B and C:
To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks.
Sparky Ames of Ferry Command - a 1943 book - now in Public Domain from
Gutenberg Project web site
Located at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47793/47793-h/47793-h.htm
Project Gutenberg's Sparky Ames of the Ferry Command, by Roy J. Snell

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This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg
License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have
to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this e-book.
Sparky Ames of the Ferry Command
Sparky Ames and Mary Mason of the Ferry Command
Author: Roy J. Snell - Illustrator: Erwin L. Darwin - Release Date: December 27, 2014 [EBook #47793]
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SPARKY AMES OF THE FERRY COMMAND ***
Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Rick Morris, Rod Crawford, Dave Morgan and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team at http://www.pgdp.net
FIGHTERS FOR FREEDOM Series
Copyright, 1943 by WHITMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY - RACINE, WISCONSIN, USA - Printed in the U.S.A.
AUTHORS NOTE: Friday, June 19th, 2015: Every time it looks like the research for this project is done, something new
seems pops up , such as these two web sites from three interesting men - one from England and two it seems, from
France their web sites are dedicated to the RAF Transport Command with
a primary focus on the venerable Douglas DC-3 - or The Dak Dakota
aircraft definitely worth a look for those interested in this magnificent
operation try this Facebook page above right
https://www.facebook.com/RafTransportCommandMemorial
and this web site at right
http://www.raftransportcommandmemorial.com/
Kudos to their creators David Petters, Thibault Renier and Guillaime DHoore - a hearty welcome as a new addition to
this appendix.
__________________________
NB: From earlier note on Donna McVicar - On Sunday, June 21st, Donna marked the
100th birthday of her late dad, Captain Don McVicar, KC, OBE, by re-publishing one of
his eight books, the first two of which deal with his experiences in the RAF FC it is
Ferry Command Pilot - cover photo at right
She proudly writes:
I, along with his granddaughter Christianna Cannon, founded Words on Wings Press,
LLC, to re-publish his thrilling autobiographical aviation books.
We are proud to announce that the third, enhanced edition of Ferry Command Pilot
is now available as a trade paperback - 6" x 9" - through Amazon's CreateSpace
publishing platform.
This edition contains the first index of any of Capt. McVicar's books, helping readers to easily find many interesting
entries, to include a never-before published list of RAF Ferry Command aircrew who are in this volume. This was a dream
of mine that took at least six tries: just so much good info in Dad's books!

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Also, this edition features more illustrations - maps and photos which have not been previously published.
Listed at US $12.99, the book will be discounted to US $9.99 if one uses the Shop Now button at the top of the pages
for Ferry Command Pilot or Captain Don McVicar, OBE, and when you check out, use Discount Code BYBUD5SX. This
offer is only good until June 27th, 2015!
Or one can visit the new home of Don McVicar's Aviation Books, www.wordsonwingspress.com to learn more and
shop through the website! Happy reading to you! Words on Wings Press - Home of Don McVicar's Aviation Books wordsonwingspress.com .
______________________________________________________________
The LAC - Library and Archives Canada Canadian archives

Thanks to Andrew Elliott, Library and Archives Canada - Page 8 and update next page this document - here are some
web sites which may help those looking for more information on the RAF Ferry Command and / or the RAF Transport
Command
Ferry Command
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/lacbac/results/arch.php?FormName=MIKAN+Items+Display&PageNum=1&SortSpec=score+desc&Language=eng&QueryPar
ser=lac_mikan&Sources=mikan&Archives=&SearchIn_1=&SearchInText_1=Ferry+command&Operator_1=AND&SearchIn
_2=&SearchInText_2=&Operator_2=AND&SearchIn_3=&SearchInText_3=&Media=&Level=&MaterialDateOperator=afte
r&MaterialDate=&DigitalImages=&Source=&ResultCount=10&cainInd=
10 items have been digitized, and out of this, there are 8 fonds that list the term (including Sheldon Luck)
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/lacbac/results/arch.php?module=arch&action=results&Language=eng&FormName=MIKAN+Items+Display&SortSpec=score
+desc&Language=eng&QueryParser=lac_mikan&Sources=mikan&Archives=&SearchIn_1=&SearchInText_1=Ferry+comm
and&Operator_1=AND&SearchIn_2=&SearchInText_2=&Operator_2=AND&SearchIn_3=&SearchInText_3=&Media=&M
aterialDateOperator=after&MaterialDate=&DigitalImages=&Source=&ResultCount=10&cainInd=&Level=Level.a_Fonds&
PageNum=1
as well as two accessions:
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/lacbac/results/arch.php?module=arch&action=results&Language=eng&FormName=MIKAN+Items+Display&SortSpec=score
+desc&Language=eng&QueryParser=lac_mikan&Sources=mikan&Archives=&SearchIn_1=&SearchInText_1=Ferry+comm
and&Operator_1=AND&SearchIn_2=&SearchInText_2=&Operator_2=AND&SearchIn_3=&SearchInText_3=&Media=&M
aterialDateOperator=after&MaterialDate=&DigitalImages=&Source=&ResultCount=10&cainInd=&Level=Level.e_Accessi
on&PageNum=1
Under a search for Transport Command RCAF, Andrew located the following hits
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/lacbac/results/arch.php?FormName=MIKAN+Items+Display&PageNum=1&SortSpec=score+desc&Language=eng&QueryPar
ser=lac_mikan&Sources=mikan&Archives=&SearchIn_1=&SearchInText_1=RCAF+transport+command&Operator_1=AN
D&SearchIn_2=&SearchInText_2=&Operator_2=AND&SearchIn_3=&SearchInText_3=&Media=&Level=&MaterialDateOp
erator=after&MaterialDate=&DigitalImages=&Source=&ResultCount=10&cainInd=
and he notes that of particular interest might be this collection
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=20550&re
c_nbr_list=20550 Also, you might the following interesting, in a govt. collection:

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http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=135766&r
ec_nbr_list=135766
and perhaps the following file.
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=4102314
&rec_nbr_list=4102314
Thanks again to Andrew, who is the archivist for Library and Archives Canadas Economic, Security and Governance
Acquisitions Division, all the authors research work which led to the production of the first and second biographies of
the late Sheldon Luck, the first Chief Pilot of Canadian Pacific Air Lines, and a member of the RAF Ferry / Transport
Command, has now been made available to the public the biographies are Walking on Air, first published in Vernon,
BC, in 1986, for which 4,800 copies of this 300-page high-quality paperback were sold, most of them west of Winnipeg,
MB and its re-issuance in 2005, under a new title, Pilot of Fortune - PoF, again as a high-quality paperback but with 30
new pages and previously unpublished material and graphics both books are no longer available on demand but PoF
may soon be re-issued.
Three chapters in each of the above biographies which came out of this material deal exclusively with Captain Lucks
time spent with the RAF Ferry / Transport Command, with the second of those chapters focusing on what Captain Luck
knew as the RAFs #231 Telecommunications Squadron the one that handled moving very important persons and
cargo throughout North America
Andrew confirmed that, as of Monday, July 20th, 2015, that all records within the Sheldon Luck - Ted Beaudoin fonds
have been opened.
This is the direct link to the fonds description:
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2015-0720T19%3A26%3A15Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=104663&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fc
ollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng
The MIKAN number, for those who want to use it for reference purposes, is 104663 and the full archival reference
number is R5625-0-8-E.
Caption for the photo at right, which has been digitized: Captain Sheldon Luck with Mr. Robert
Service in front of Barkley - Grow T8P-1 aircraft CF-BMG 'Yukon King' of Yukon Southern Air
Transport Ltd.
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_v Online MIKAN no. 3192048 (1 item)
er=Z39.88A finding aid will soon be attached to the fonds, and Andrew will advise when this is available.
Below, is the main link to the main search function for databases:
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/search/Pages/search.aspx

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