A Minute Hardly Seems Enough
/“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old”. My Uncle Norman is 22. His photo gazes at me as I write. Norman is proudly dressed in his RCAF Uniform, wings prominent on his breast pocket. He was among an elite group of pilots – of the 230 pilots receiving their wings in 1940 only 20 were sent to join with the RAF in the early war years. He left Canada on a troop ship in February 1941 and four months later he died in a fiery crash landing on returning to England.
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