Wings over Gatineau-Ottawa
A RCAF B-25 Mitchell bomber is given a Royal Navy Corsair escort over the Gatineau Airport - as part of Wings over Gatineau-Ottawa. First airshow I've attended in decades. Nicely done though - each aircraft was accompanied by music and news broadcasts from the era represented. The Corsair has been restored and dedicated as "Gray Ghost" in honour of, and as a flying memorial to, Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Navy, the last Canadian to earn the Victoria Cross during World War II. He lost his life when piloting his Royal Navy Corsair in an attack on Japanese warships in their home waters. www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/resource_pages/heroes/gray...
Wings over Gatineau-Ottawa
A RCAF B-25 Mitchell bomber is given a Royal Navy Corsair escort over the Gatineau Airport - as part of Wings over Gatineau-Ottawa. First airshow I've attended in decades. Nicely done though - each aircraft was accompanied by music and news broadcasts from the era represented. The Corsair has been restored and dedicated as "Gray Ghost" in honour of, and as a flying memorial to, Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Navy, the last Canadian to earn the Victoria Cross during World War II. He lost his life when piloting his Royal Navy Corsair in an attack on Japanese warships in their home waters. www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/resource_pages/heroes/gray...