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AVGP Cougar Armoured Vehicle General Purpose on display at Canadian Forces Base Borden located in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
The Cougar was used for training in Canada as a reconnaissance vehicle. During the 1980s and 1990s, it was used by armoured units as a fire support vehicle, for those units not equipped with the Leopard tank. The squadrons equipped with the Cougar in those regiments were humorously referred to as the "boat squadron" as opposed to the reconnaissance squadrons, which were equipped with the Lynx, and later the Coyote (another AVGP successor).
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1941 Canadian RAM Tank on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
The RAM Tank weighed 32 tons, crew of five, a 6lb main barrel and one machine gun. Montreal Locomotive Works produced 1399 Tanks.
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I had the rare opportunity to glimpse the flight deck of the Canadian Forces C-130 Hercules transport plane. It must be an interesting way to go to work each day.
15002 - Airbus A-310-304F/CC-150 Polaris -
Canadian Forces - Royal Candaian Air Force (RCAF)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 482 - built in 1988 for Wardair and operated as C-GLWD - merged into Canadian Airlines International in 1990 -
to RCAF -2/1993 and converted to CC-150 Polaris
Hornet 1 and a specially painted Harvard from 2CFFTS in Moose Jaw in heritage flight formation during media/practice day for Airshow London 2016
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Lynx Reconnaissance (RCCE) Armoured Vehicle on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
The Lynx Vehicle is fitted with a 50 caliber machine gun.
Photographed the 1952 GMC M135 Canadian 6x6 Medium Duty Cargo Truck 52-50000 on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
After the REO M35 was standardized GMC submitted a different design. An evolution of the CCKW, the GMC was classed as substitute standard M135 in the US but was widely used by the Canadian Army called the Deuce and a Half.
M135 was the only 21⁄2-ton truck designed with an automatic transmission. The transmission had 4 speeds and 2 ranges, with a 1-range transfer case.
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The second Kingfisher to visit in three days. Both came from CFB Comox (CYQQ). They use call-signs starting "CRDO" (Cerdo) and ending in the serial last three.
Liberation Day (Dutch: Bevrijdingsdag) is celebrated in The Netherlands each year on May the 5th to mark the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.
The nation was liberated by Canadian forces, British infantry divisions, the British I Corps, the 1st Polish Armoured Division, American, Belgian, Dutch and Czechoslovak troops.
Parts of the country, in particular the south-east, were liberated by the British Second Army which included American and Polish airborne forces (see Operation Market Garden) and French airbornes (see Operation Amherst).
On 5 May 1945 the Canadian General Charles Foulkes and the German Commander-in-Chief Johannes Blaskowitz reached an agreement on the capitulation of German forces in the Netherlands in Hotel de Wereld in Wageningen. One day later the capitulation document was signed in the auditorium of Wageningen University located next door.
After liberation in 1945 Liberation Day was celebrated every five years. In 1990 the day was declared a national holiday when liberation would be remembered and celebrated every year.
On May 4 the Dutch hold "Dodenherdenking" Remembrance of the Dead for the people who fought and died during World War II (280,000 Dutch people died as a result of the war.) and in wars in general.
There are remembrance gatherings all over cities and in the country, the better-known at the National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam and at the Waalsdorpervlakte in the dunes near The Hague, one of the infamous Nazi execution places.
Throughout the country two minutes of silence is observed at 8 pm.
On May 5 the liberation is celebrated and festivals are held at most places in the Netherlands with parades of veterans and 14 musical festivals through the whole country.
Freedom is a right, but not obvious!
FREEDOM in the Netherlands thanks to:
• Canadian forces
• British infantry divisions
• British I Corps
• 1st Polish Armored Division
• American, Belgian, Dutch and Czechoslovak troops.
148803 - Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone - Canadian Forces - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF)
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 92-5003 - built in 2009
The Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone is a twin-engine, multi-role shipboard helicopter developed by the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation for the Canadian Armed Forces. A military variant of the Sikorsky S-92, the CH-148 is designed for shipboard operations and replaced the venerable CH-124 Sea King,
Canada ordered 28 and received 26 CH-148's - one helicopter was lost in an accident in 2020.
1950 Ford GPW 1/4 Ton 4x4 Jeep on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
CAF 114155 - Canadair CT-114 Tutor - Canadian Forces SNOWBIRDS
in the entrance hall of the Canada Aviation & Space Museum at Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
Built in 1963, this Tutor served as an RCAF training aircraft for a number of years. It was later transferred to the Snowbirds and used for air demonstrations. The number 10 on the vertical tail represents this Tutor’s formation number. Usually seven or nine aircraft make up Snowbird formation which means that the Museum's Tutor was used only when an aircraft was out for repair. The Canadian Forces donated the aircraft to the Museum in 1999.
Canadian Forces Base Borden, Ontario
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Allison T63-A-700 turboshaft, 317-shp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_OH-58_Kiowa
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Nap-of-the-earth operations
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nap-of-the-earth
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Below, right: Canadian Army M4A1 'Grizzly' WWII medium tank (aka Sherman in US Army)
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Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Hornet 1 touches down on runway 30 following the last practice of 2017 spring training in Comox.
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1944 Chevrolet CMP C8 4x4 Heavy Utility Personnel Truck on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County
15002 - Airbus A-310-304F/CC-150 Polaris -
Canadian Forces - Royal Candaian Air Force (RCAF)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 482 - built in 1988 for Wardair and operated as C-GLWD - merged into Canadian Airlines International in 1990 -
to RCAF -2/1993 and converted to CC-150 Polaris
The green dye in the de-icing fluid indicates Type IV. It is thick enough to adhere to surfaces and prevent ice forming while the aircraft is on the ground prior to departure.
HMCS Shawinigan (MM 704) Kingston-class Coastal Defence Vessel moored alongside her sister ship at the CFB Halifax Dockyard in the City of Halifax Nova Scotia Canada
Cannone da 47/32 Model 1935 Infantry/Anti-Tank Gun on display at Canadian Forces Base Borden located in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
The Cannone da 47/32 mod. 1935 was an Italian artillery piece that saw service during World War II. It was originally designed by Austrian firm Böhler, and produced in Italy under license. The Cannone da 47/32 was used both as an infantry gun and an anti-tank gun; it was effective against lightly armored tanks when using the Effetta Pronto rounds.
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Hornet 1 tidying up the high alpha to dirty inverted transition during 2017 Comox spring training.
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Willys MB 1/4 Ton 4x4 Provost Jeep on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
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CAF
Abbotsford air show
McDonnell CF-101 Voodoo
An all-weather interceptor aircraft operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Forces between 1961 and 1984.
1926 Morris Commercial Truck on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
This vehicle is one of ten sent to Canada from Great Britain in 1926 for user trials and was tested in Camp Bordenby R.C. Sign.
Donated by Camille Mestdagh
1916 International General Service Cargo Truck on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
Sexton Self-propelled Artillery CA172355 on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
A total of 2150 Sexton's were built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in Montreal between 1943 and 1945 for the British and Canadian Forces during WWII.
Gracing the skies in an aerial demonstration is a Canadair CT-133 Silver Star. The CT-133 is a Canadian license built version of the Lockheed T-33 jet trainer aircraft produced for the Royal Canadian Air Force and later the Canadian Forces. There are some differences between the two versions such as; the Canadian version was powered by the Rolls-Royce Nene 10 turbojet, instead of the original Allison J33. The CT-133 carried large fuel tanks on the wingtips. The CT-133 entered service in 1952 and the last one was retired in 2005. Canadair built 656 CT-133 aircrafts.
This CT-133 Silver Star, tail number 21052 “Black Knight” was built in 1953 and originally flown by the RCAF. The aircraft is painted as a tribute to No. 414 Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Thunder Over Columbus Air Show
Columbus Air Force Base, Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi. September 21, 2024
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Canadian Forces CF18 Demo Team 188776 in special colors to celebrate the 60th anniversary of NORAD completing a touch and go on Runway 15 at MTN. The aircraft is participating in Fleet Week this weekend and is from the 401 Squadron based at CFB Cold Lake.
Japanese Type 38 75 mm Field Gun on display at the Military Museum located at Canadian Forces Base Borden in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship REGINA's CH-124 Sea King helicopter deploys flares during a routine flight operation in the Indian Ocean on August 14, 2014.
Photo: Cpl Michael Bastien, MARPAC Imaging Services
L’hélicoptère CH124 Sea King du Navire canadien de Sa Majesté REGINA lance des fusées éclairantes, pendant une opération de vol courante dans l’océan Indien, le 12 août 2014.
Photo : Cpl Michael Bastien, Services d’imagerie des FMAR(P)
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The Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Victoria passes the bulk carrier Viktoria Wulff as she returns to CFB Esquimalt from a deployment.
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CFB Borden Military Museum at Canadian Forces Base Borden located in Simcoe County Ontario Canada
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ex CAF 101006 - Mc Donnell CF-101 Vodoo - Jet Aircraft Museum (ex Canadian Armed Forces)
at London International Airport (YXU)
c/n 420 - built in 1970
The aircraft was acquired by the Jet Aircraft Museum and was moved recently from former CFB Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. The aircraft was on display there since February 2004. Made last flight by an F-101, April 1987.
CAF 116763 - Canadair (Northrop) CF-116 Freedom Fighter - Canadian Armed Forces
at the Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa Rockcliffe Airport (YRO)
license-built in Canada 1970 by Canadair - retired 1995 - donated to the museum 1997 -
in Warsaw Pact "aggressor" markings