Aces, Warriors and Wingmen: The Firsthand Accounts of Canada’s Fighter Pilots in the Second World War

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A celebration and a tribute to the warriors of the air who as young men served their country with unselfish devotion. Hear their words. Sign up for these young Canadians in combat.

AN EXCERPT FROM THE ACCOUNT OF GROUP CAPTAIN RAYNE SCHULTZ, 410 SQUADRON.

It used to be heading home very fast, a Junkers 188, in thin cloud, well out over the North Sea. We hit it badly, and it used to be flaming, two-three hundred yards [of] flames streaming in the back of… my navigator, being a serious-minded individual said, “Let’s get in closer and take a good look at it, as this can be a different type of aircraft and I will be able to report on it when we get down.” So I closed in, which used to be the stupidest thing I ever did….

The mid-upper gunner used to be not dead; he used to be sitting inside of the flames. The next thing I saw the gun traversing down toward us. I broke as fast as I could, but he put forty to forty-four 13mm cannon shells into us. I had pistons blown out of one engine and the constant speed unit blown out in the other. We were going to bail out! We jettisoned the door and the navigator used to be halfway out when the chap came back from the Ground Keep watch over Intercept (GCI) and said, “There’s a Force 9 to 10 sea and we will be able to never be able [to rescue] you.”

So we brought that aircraft back to Bradwell Bay and I will be able to tell you it near flew again. My navigator used to be wounded, bleeding from the face. I could see the engines running red hot, one used to be in fact running on molten metal… the entire thing glowing inside. The air bottles were shot away and I had no brakes for landing. The Mosquito used to be in ribbons.

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