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Barris, Ted. Behind the Glory: Canada’s Role in the Allied Air War. Toronto: Thomas Allan Publishers, 2010.

Barris, Ted. The Great Escape: A Canadian Story. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013.

Bashow, David L. All the Fine Young Eagles. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Company Ltd., 1997.

Bashow, David L. Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World War. Toronto: McArthur and Company, 2000.

Bashow, David L. None but the Brave: The Essential Contributions of RAF Bomber Command to Allied Victory During the Second World War. Kingston, Ontario: Canadian Defence Academy Press, 2009.

Bashow, David L. No Prouder Place: Canadians and the Bomber Command Experience, 1939–1945. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2005.

Bishop, William Arthur. True Canadian Heroes in the Air. Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 2004.

Bishop, William Arthur. Billy Bishop The Courage of the Early Morning: A Biography of the Great Ace of World War I. Toronto: Thomas Allan Publishers, 1965 and 2011.

Dempsey, Daniel V. A Tradition of Excellence: Canada’s Airshow Team Heritage, Second Edition. Victoria, British Columbia: High Flight Enterprises, 2007.

Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defence. Canada and the Korean War. Montreal: Art Global, 2002.

Douglas, W.A.B. The Creation of a National Air Force: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Vol. II. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.

Dundas, Barbara. A History of Women in the Canadian Military. Montreal: Art Global, 2000.

Greenhous, Brereton, Stephen J. Harris, William C. Johnston and William G.P. Rawling. The Crucible of War, 1939 –1945: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Vol. III. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Greenhous, Brereton and Hugh Halliday. Canada’s Air Forces 1914–1999. Montreal: Art Global, 1999.

Harvey, J. Douglas. The Tumbling Mirth: Remembering the Air Force. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983.

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Horn, Bernd and Roch Legault, editors. Loyal Service: Perspectives on French-Canadian Military Leaders. Toronto. The Dundurn Group, 2007.

Kostenuk, Samuel and John Griffin. RCAF Squadron Histories and Aircraft, 1924–1968. Toronto: Hakkert & Company, 1977.

Langeste, Tom. Words on the Wing: Slang Aphorisms, Catchphrases and Jargon on Canadian Military Aviation Since 1914. Toronto: Canadian Printco Ltd., 1995.

Lavigne, J.P.A. Michel and J.F. (Stocky) Edwards. Kittyhawk Pilot: Wing Commander J.F. (Stocky) Edwards. Battleford, Saskatchewan: Turner-Warwick Publications, Inc., 1983.

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Websites (current as of December 2013)

Aces of World War II: www.acesofww2.com (English only)

Air Force Association of Canada: www.airforce.ca (English only)

Canadian Aviation and Space Museum: http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca

Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame: www.cahf.ca (English only)

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Fondation Aérovision Quebec (including Quebec Aviation Hall of Fame): www.aerovision.org

National Air Force Museum of Canada: www.airforcemuseum.ca

Royal Canadian Air Force: www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca

Veterans Affairs Canada: www.veterans.gc.ca

The Royal Canadian Legion: www.legion.ca

Publishing Information

On Windswept Heights II: Historical Highlights of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Revised and Expanded edition

Copyright © 2009 and 2013 by Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada

Photo credits: All photos are credited to the Department of National Defence unless otherwise indicated.

First edition published as On Windswept Heights: Historical Highlights of Canada’s Air Force.

Catalogue numbers: D2-241/2014 (paper)

D2-241/2014E-PDF (English PDF)

ISBN numbers: 978-1-100-54643-8 (paper)

978-1-100-22949 -2 (English PDF)

NDID number: A-JS-007-033/JD-002

(supersedes A-JS-007-033/JD-001)

On Windswept Heights II: Historical Highlights of the Royal Canadian Air Force is published on the authority of the Commander, Royal Canadian Air Force, Lieutenant-General Yvan Blondin.

On Windswept Heights II is available online at www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca.

Managing editor: Lieutenant-Colonel David Devenney
Editor and writer: Ms Joanna Calder
Historian, Directorate of History and Heritage, Chief Military Personnel: Major Mathias Joost
Historian, Office of Air Force Heritage and History, Royal Canadian Air Force: Major Brendan Bond
Writer and researcher (first edition): Mr. David Krayden

Special thanks to Alfred Aquila, Suzanne Edwards and Bruce MacEachern for sharing their parents’ stories.

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