This is how sometimes this blog will evolve…
Good day. My father F/L John R Irwin flew with 443 Squadron during WWII. He passed away 20 years ago of complications from cardio-vascular disease. I’m curious and wonder if there’s some way to determine something I’ve been unable to clarify. That is…who was flying wing to S/L Wally McLeod the day he didn’t return?
Many thanks for any assistance you may be able to offer
Regards,
Tony Irwin
A comment is how this blog was created back in 2013 when Nicole Morley wrote a comment on another blog I had created in 2011. It was about RCAF 403 Squadron.
Nicole wanted to share a story with me about her granduncle Arthur James Horrell who was with 443 Squadron…
She wanted to know more about how her granduncle died.
Then little by little other people joined in like Tara whose grandfather was Paul Piché seen here on a group picture.
Paul Piché died in the same crash as Arthur Horrell.
Later on Nicole visited Ivor Williams.
Ivor was on the group picture and he identified a few pilots.
There were a few errors but they were later corrected thanks to Nicole and Tara who teamed up.
Which brings me four years later to write about another pilot who was not on that group picture, but on this post written in April 2013…
F/O J. R. Irwin was just first a name, then a picture which was shared Art Sager’s son.
This is what Tony Irwin has just shared a few minutes ago…
A picture of his father when he was a recruit.
Tony wanted to know more…
I’m curious and wonder if there’s some way to determine something I’ve been unable to clarify. That is…who was flying wing to S/L Wally McLeod the day he didn’t return?
How Wally McLeod died and who was his wingman?
To read Leslie Birket Foster’s memoirs, click here.
To learn more about F/O J. R. Irwin…?
For your consideration.
An aviation print by Robert Taylor depicting ‘The Canadian Wing’ patrolling the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. As per my dad’s log book he participated in those patrols.
RCAF No. 443 Squadron 