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This appendix lists names of men, women, governments, private corporations, agencies and associations who have provided interviews, and other information and / or donated material in the form of such as letters, news clippings - magazine and newspapers, CDs containing personal and commercial dramatic, fictional and documentary films, and considerable other archival data … the list is quite long, having taken nearly nine consecutive years to build.

The information in this appendix may serve as a valuable finding aid for those searching the internet for information about their relatives and / or friends who served with the Royal Air Force’s Ferry Command - RAF FC - in any capacity - either as civilian employees or as military personnel seconded to the RAF Fc from various allied armed, as 1-trippers, or for any length of time in pioneering air routes over the world’s oceans, either with the RAF FC alone, or in co-operation with other allied air forces and commercial airlines, who wasted no time in supplementing the RAF FC delivery rates of new fighter aircraft and bombers to where and when they were needed, and, as stated earlier, all winding up in delivering by war’s end some 250, 000 or more fighters, bombers, and cargo planes to war fronts.

It is sent for your review and for you to let me know if you wish me to add more information about you, or delete whatever information appears next to your name … either a personal name, a corporate name, an association name … a museum name.

I respectfully request your written consent - an e-mail will be fine to insert an e-mail address besides your name … and permission to use your personal photograph as well … each recipient for this preliminary resource list will have received a “blind cc” … in other words, this message respects the privacy of your e-mail address … no one else will know anyone else’s e-mail address unless I am given written - by e-mail - permission to do so.

Please remember that this manuscript, once published, may become the last and only tribute for the men and women - civilians and seconded military personnel alike - of what became the Royal Air Force’s Ferry Command.

Thank you for your co-operation and contributions. Ted Beaudoin - Welland, ON - Canada

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Archives, associations, companies, governments, museums, organizations, universities

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Trove - http://trove.nla.gov.au/ - free service, no fees, no subscription needed “Find and get over 390,815,994 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers,

maps, music, archives and more … ” _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Canada Alberta Aviation Museum & Edmonton Aviation Heritage Society, Edmonton, AB Jim Coutts, Editor, In Formation newsletter

Bomber Command Museum of Canada - Nanton, Alberta: Curator: Bob Evans (Volunteer), permissions from him and the author, Clarence Simonsen, … to reproduce the author’s take on the wondrous American recruiting trio known as the Clayton-Knight Committee - Appendix 4

Department of National Defence, Directorate of History and Heritage, Ottawa, ON Valerie Casbourn, Assistant Archivist, Ottawa, Nicoolas Lamothe, Liam Rafferty and Arthur Wells: student archivists

For information, contact: http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/adh-sdh/cl-lc/index-eng.asp Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc., Brandon, MB British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, 130, 000 + air and ground crew training Allied nations Stephen Hayter- Executive Director, help on Jimmy Mattern photo -1st Hudson into Canada

Harry Hayward, volunteer, as above

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______________________________________________________________ Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame, Alberta David Crone, former curator, Mary Oswald, former editor of the CAHF newsletter The Flyer

Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Canadian Pacific Railway Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, President Punch Dickens, noted Canadian bush pilot, helped CPR set up ATFERO Bob Kennell, (Retired) Manager, Canadian Pacific Archives & Product Licensing

Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, Gatineau, QC

Canadian Museum of Flight, Vancouver, BC: Jerry Vernon - provided source material for James McClelland‘s paper on the two-horse powered hauling of bombers from North Dakota into Manitoba

Canadian War Museum, Ottawa Jane Naisbitt, Head, Military History Research Centre, jane.naisbitt@warmuseum.ca

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, ON, http://www.warplane.com Erin Napier Curator Neil McGavock, Co-ordinator of the museum’s Voices From The Past program

Clayton-Knight Committee, Canada / USA, major recruiters American civilian air crews

Dorval Historical Society, Dorval, QC, Canada Alain Jarry, historian - Beverley Rankin, Dorval City representative

Empire Club of Toronto (Red Book), 1943 speech by RAF FC leader, Air Vice-Marshal Marix

Ferry Command Association, no longer active, having held its last meeting in 2000, in Gander, NL, Canada - however, a small amount of information from this inactive web site can be found through the Way Back Machine … see entry below … https://archive.org/web by typing https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ferrycommand.com into the URL or address bar atop any web browser … the following result shows up: http://www.ferrycommand.com - RIGHT: a partial screen shot of this page shows that the FC Association web pages have been saved 10 times between February 1st, 2001 and June 2nd, 2002

Flying for your life, Source for Keith Hodson, net search result http://www.flyingforyourlife.com/pilots/ww2/h/hodson/#.UZebMMq8-So

Gander Airport Historical Society (GAHS), blog - http://airportcoffeeshop.blogspot.com Peter Hoyles, George Innes, Marion Pardy, Robert Pelley and Jack Pinsent

Institut Historica Dominion Institute, re Gordon Saunders The Memory Project, lead to Basil Hall, http://www.thememoryproject.com/about/

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______________________________________________________________ “The Memory Project Archives is an initiative of the Historica-Dominion Institute and

is made possible with generous funding from Canadian Heritage.”

Juno Beach Centre, Burlington, ON - http://www.junobeach.org/canada-in-wwii/articles/ferrying-aircrafts-overseas/ “The Juno Beach Centre Association (JBCA) is a Canadian non-profit charitable corporation that is governed by a Board of Directors based in Burlington (Ontario), Canada. The JBCA owns and operates the Juno Beach Centre in Normandy, France. Its mandate is to: Provide a

tangible and fitting memorial to Canada’s participation in the Second World War and recognize the emergence of Canada on the world scene; Remember and commemorate the sacrifices made by all Canadians who were part of the Allied victory in all theatres of war and at home; and Educate adults and children of today and future generations about the role of Canada in preserving the freedoms we are privileged to enjoy today.”

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON Larry McNally, retired, archivist: Ted Beaudoin, Sheldon Luck Fonds

Manitoba Legislative Library, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Milton Historical Society photo, see Wyndham below: contact Richard Laughton http://images.milton.halinet.on.ca/16105/data

Terry Baker, Editor - NetLetter for Canadian airline retirees everywhere

Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL Joan Ritcey, Head, Centre for Newfoundland Studies (CNS)

North Atlantic Aviation Museum, Gander, NL Sandra Seaward, Executive Director

Panthéon de l'Air et de l'espace du Québec Québec Air and Space Hall of Fame, Pierre Thiffault, co-founder, Chairman of the selection committee from 2001 to 2010

RCAF, ATA 170 Ferry Squadron, later becoming #124 Ferry Squadron George Watson, pilot

8 Wing, Trenton, ON, The Contact newsletter Virtual Wings, www.virtualwings.org, Oneonta, NY- USA Paul F. Straney, re T9465, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees

Western Canadian Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, MB, published in its Review magazine, James McClelland’s paper on the two-horse powered

hauling of bombers from North Dakota into Manitoba ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Denmark Jacobus Maarschalkerweerd, lead to Capt. E. Stafford

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England William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, England

The National Archives, London: -http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/get-involved/social-media.htm – assistance concerning John Sleigh Pudney

National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London

Photo of John Sleigh Pudney, author, Atlantic Bridge, the only official account of the RAF FC RAF Air Historical Branch, Royal Air Force, http://www.raf.mod.uk/ahb/ - J.C. Cox, Head RAF FC, Bomber Command - DCT Bennett RAF FC, Reginald Leonard George Marix CB, DSO, Air Vice-Marshal

RAF Museum, Hendon, England - Richard Simpson, Curator of Aircraft, concerning Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees and penciled messages of goodwill on its panels

Imperial War Museum, London - George Matt, designer

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Belfast International Airport Ernie Cromie, Ulster Aviation Society, lead to Belfast International Airport / Aldergrove Deborah Harris, Public Relations, Belfast International Airport / Aldergrove

Meg Warner, Belfast International Airport / Aldergrove ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Scotland Andrew Bruce, Wick: owner Far North Aviation

Brian Plant, NATS, Prestwick: UK air traffic control consultants and private aviation researcher

brian.plant@nats.co.uk

Prestwick Airport Danny Anderson - researcher, Prestwick

Bob Chandler - area chairman of RAFA Scotland and Northern Ireland Alan Clark, media relations for airport

Tom Macfadyen, researcher, Prestwick Doug Maclean - researcher, Prestwick Jim Riach, Editor: Prestwick Air Letter

Scottish Saltaire Aircrew Association - Jack Burgess, RAF FC Flight Engineer, 1-tripper

Jack, 92 at the time of writing, has been a major supporter of this project over the last couple of research years. His web site contains 9 entries dealing with his experiences within the RAF FC. His memories can found in the following entries on the website, which is

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______________________________________________________________ at http://www.aircrew-saltire.org/ - they are Nos. 18, 56, 93, 120, 140, 163, 167, 180, 203; a 10th entry, No. 234 - reports on the development of this book, Earth Angels Rising.

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First Officer G. J. Byars BOAC Captain G. P. M. Eves Captain A. Gilhausen BOAC Captain R. H. Page Hubert France Parker, RAF FC, seconded Radio Officer in Hudson T9425 Vivienne M Parker, lead to her father-in-Law, Hubert France Parker _______________________________________________________________________________________________

United States of America Flight Global magazine, England and USA - various editors

Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, MD: Karen Hagar and Laura Siebert, Public relations

Newspaper archives, invaluable resource listing newspapers dating back before 1938 http://newspaperarchive.com - subscription needed - claims to be world’s largest collection

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum Robert (Bob) Clark, Executive Director, Hyde Park, NY, USA, re Churchill’s urgent letter in 1940

pleading to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt for help

Trower Aviation, Scobey Airport, Scobey, Charles Trower, owner, provided research help on 5 Canadian / USA border airports used in 1939 and 1940

University of Texas, Austin, TX - Harry Ransom Center - backgrounds on Jimmy Mattern and John Sleigh Pudney

Way Back Machine, San Francisco, CA: “archived 419, 000, 000, 000 pages archived since 1996”

https://archive.org/web/ ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Witnesses Gerry Harmann, 1986, Sicamous, BC, lead to his father, Ivan Harmann Ivan Harmann, 1986, Westbank, BC, RCAF Gander, sawed off propeller tip from Hudson bomber, T9465,

Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees on Sunday, Dec. 30th, 1940, the night it crashed trying to take off from Gander, NL - to be donated to citizens of London, England, as gift from Lockheed and Vega aircraft manufacturing plants in Callfornia, and their 18,000 employees: another aircraft bearing the same name arrived in Wick, Scotland in March, 1941.

Elmer McClelland, Emerson, MB, Canada, child witness of the Jan., 1940 horse-towing of bombers from USA to Canada … lead from his cousin, retired Winnipeg school teacher James McClelland

Roderick B. Goff, weatherman in Gander, NL in December, 1940 - author Crossroads of the World: Recollections from an Airport Town

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BBC, numerous documentaries on various RAF FC accomplishments and profiles on some personnel

British Library Newspaper Archives, London, England -Christian Halgar – established fact that no newspaper in England or Scotland reported the arrival of the Spirit of Lockheed – Vega Employees in

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______________________________________________________________ December 1940, nor any time in 1941, when plane with that name showed up in Wick, Scotland in March, 1941 – see Chapter 3 which solves the mystery behind this gift from the manufacturer to the city of London. British Pathé, various newsreel items over the years, for movie theatres world-wide

CBC, Doc Zone, Ferry Command, The Forgotten Flyers of WW II, 2006 Cowichan News Leader, Cowichan (Vancouver Island), BC, Canada - Peter W. Rusland, Reporter Gander Beacon, Gander, NL, Canada - Brandon Anstey, Reporter - Kevin Higgins - Editor

Hamilton Spectator , Hamilton, ON, Canada: archives

John O’Groat Journal and Caithness Courrier, Wick, Scotland Elizabeth-Anne Mackay, Deputy Editor

Newspapers dot com, web site subscription, archives millions of newspapers world-wide

Pope Productions, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 4-hour mini-series Above and Beyond, 2006, about the RAF FC

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Laura Anderson, reporter, North Shore News, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, story on Ken McClelland Ted Beaudoin, Welland, ON Canada

Two biographies about Captain Sheldon Luck¸the first Chief Pilot of Canadian Pacific Air Lines. They are Walking on Air, 1986, 300 pages, and a new expanded version at 344-pages in 2009, Pilot of Fortune. Chapters 7, 8 and 9 in each book detail some of Sheldon’s experiences and adventures within the RAF FC ... these chapters were the genesis for this book.

Peter Berry, Prestwick, Scotland, author (2005) Prestwick Airport and Scottish Aviation Arthur Bishop, son of famed Canadian WW I pilot Billy Bishop, a pilot in his own right who made quite

a name for himself, and author, Unsung Courage … 16 pages of this book deal with the RAF FC Carl Christie, author Ocean Bridge: History of RAF Ferry Command, modern-day official history of the RAF FC John Croft, Americas Editor, Flight Global magazine Ernest K. Gann, author, Island in the Sky Joey Gill, Boys of Spring Productions, Toronto, ON, Canada, Robert Boudreau, director, writer, producer

Boys of Spring, planned movie on Clayton-Knight Committee, recruited thousands of US civilians for FC - Charles Savage, Producer, Working title: The Clayton Knight Committee (USA)

F.J. Hatch, Aerodrome of Democracy: Canada, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan 1939-1945 Trish Lewis, Blogger, Thief River Falls, Minnesota, USA, trishymouse@gmail.com, her blogs … St. Vincent Memories - One Small Town in Minnesota Scribblings from Memory - I grew up somewhere near Lake Wobegon, but not far from Walton's Mountain Prairie Woman - Life in the Slow Lane

Our Mothers - A Caregiving Journey Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured - Adventures of a Toy Theatre Novice

James McClelland, Innisfil, ON, Canada - former teacher in Manitoba, local historian - contributor to Earth Angels Rising, documentary film producer on local Manitoba histories

T. M. McGrath, Ottawa, ON, A History of Canadian Airports, Transport Canada, Ottawa Carol (Mercer) Walsh, writer - The Beacon Supplement, July 31st, 1991- convincing England that Gander, NL was the only good place from which to launch aircraft deliveries Donald McVicar, RAF FC pioneering pilot, author of a number of books on the RAF FC Jeffrey Mills, writer, Io Communications, Belaire, TX, USA

pending book on Pan Am contributions to all ferrying commands of WW II A. W. O’Brien, Australia - Murder in Ferry Command - 1942 fiction: murder mystery book based on the RAF FC -

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Edward Willis Scripps, later becoming United Press International after merging with the Hearst organization - published this book in serial format in Australia, USA and in Canada - with Flesherton, ON being one of those places

Griffith “Taffy” Powell, Air Commodore, C.B.E., RAF FC, author, “Per Ardua ad Astra”, the story of the Atlantic Air Ferry and Ferryman - From Ferry Command to Silver city

John Sleigh Pudney, England, official historian -1945, wrote the only official account of the RAF Ferry Command, Atlantic Bridge

Terry Shoptaugh, retired professor / historian, Minnesota, USA, contributor to Earth Angels Rising Joyce Spring, author Daring Lady Flyers, some ATA women pilots - lead to Elspeth Russell Frank Tibbo, historian, Gander Beacon columnist, Gander, NL William (Bill) VanDerKloot, Atlanta, GA, USA, filmmaker, Flying the Secret Sky - about his father Bill VanDerKloot Shalto Watt, RAF FC, pilot, author, I’ll Take the High Road John Butler (Sammy) Woods, author, Uncharted Skies, from Kathy Mitchell and Barbara Swanston Humphrey Wynn, author, Forged in War, A history of Royal Air Force Transport Command 1943-1947 Bill Zuk, historian, Winnipeg, MB, Canada __________________________________________________________________________________________

Individuals E.C. Abbott RAF FC, First Officer, crew with Marco Polo aircraft John Affleck RAF FC, flight engineer, Commando, flown by William VanDerKloot, Churchill’s pilot Alexander Albulet from Louise Erdely Ernest Allen, Welland, ON - BCATP, 1-tripper, drew long straw, took boat to England - founded Welland Seaway Mall Mike Allen, son of Ernest, retired 2014 from Seaway Mall holding company M. B. "Jock" Barclay TCA Captain on RAF FC flight, lead from Harry Cooper Howard Baker, Port Hawkesbury, NS - deceased, Jan. 30th, 2013 at age 99, RAF FC, radio operator, DCT Bennett, leader of original group of civilians, from England to USA and Canada as early as 1938-39 Willie Bidell Wing Commander, RAF FC early, lost at sea, 2nd pilot for Commando - aircraft assigned to Churchill Louis Bisson RAF FC pioneer, top “bush” pilot, became a priest, bridge between Montréal and Laval, QC bears his name,

flew with Don McVicar pushing back frontiers in high Arctic to develop air routes to Greenland and Iceland for deliveries of single-engine fighter aircraft

Vicki Bouchard, relative of Garry Stockdill, Brantford, ON Frederick Bowhill, Sir, Air Chief Marshall, RAF Ferry Command Alex Bowie RAF FC Navigator, information from Scottish Saltire Branch ACA # 162 Bradbrook Captain, and others, re a fatality Roslyn Lloyd George Browne RAF FC, see Keith Thompson Terence Malcolm Bulloch, RAF - seconded to RAF FC as 1-tripper, made many flights later Dennis Burke, Dublin, leads to Wyndham and others below

Bob Care, Oakville, ON, b.care@sympatico.ca, his dad, Fred, was one of Commando’s pilots. Commando ferried Prime Minister Winston Churchill - SEE VanDerKloot. After WW II, Fred became an early business partner with Tim Horton, of Hortons‘ fame … selling new cars with Tim before Tim sold his first donut. Bob made a high-resolution copy of a special book about the RAF FC: Per Ardua Ad Astra - The Story of No. 45 Group - Royal Air Force - Book #90 of 500 copies - reproduced in APPENDIX 2

Jan Care, Bob Care’s wife, her father, Flight Sergeant Frank Hodgson, flew with the RAF # 550 Squadron Henry R. Carlyle, OBE, American, RAF FC pilot, Dorion, QC, radio operator, DVA, Canada web site Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England Jacqueline Cochrane, famous American pilot

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______________________________________________________________ Bob Coffman, RAF FC, 2nd pilot, lost with Ron Snow and rescued with him, from Alex Bowie A. Colato, RAF FC, Flight Engineer, aircrew on Marco Polo Bob Conger, Atlantic Bridge book source, Aeroknow Harry Cooper, from NetLetter, described Feb., 1944 RAF FC flight back to Canada John Cormack, Wick, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees material, link with

Elizabeth-Ann McKay at John O’Groats and Caithness Journal Diane Cranstoun, Alberta, photo of cemetery, RAF FC crash in Scotland Pete Dawson, Vancouver Island, tape-recorded interview with Gord Stemson Walt Davidson, RAF FC, flew with Bidell George G. Denton, friend of Alec Dame and Sheldon Luck Punch Dickens, ATFERO - remembered Sheldon Luck through his biography, Walking on Air Murray Benjamin Dilley, RAF FC, Pilot, flew Hudson AM864, L. B. Doherty, civilian RAF FC radio operator Dorion, radio operator, from Veterans Affairs Canada web site, lead to Henry Carlyle http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/video-gallery/video/7816 Elizabeth Easton, Wife Upton, RAF FC weather forecasting "Kelly" Edmison, 2nd Captain, RAF FC return flight, see Cooper, Barclay Harold E. Emigh, RAF FC pilot - later was Emigh Trojan aircraft builder in Colorado, built 85 of them Louise Erdely, Lead to Albulet, a family friend - d. July 2013 - Regina, SK William Erdelyi, - R/O with RAF FC, Louise’s father-in-law George P. Evans, OBE - from Thea Strassburg, uncle to Charlie Kotsaftis

Captain Evans was the pilot of airplane named Marco Polo; he flew with Don McVicar who credited him as being best instrument pilot ever … Captain Evans’s plane disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean on July 4th, 1945

H. J. Farley Flight Lieutenant, RAF FC, crew with McVicar, a/c Marco Polo flight to Chunking, China Bill Fernie, Wick, Scotland, see write-up in files Caithness.org group and Hilland Primary School Allen Flowers crewed with Willie Bidell- 1st Liberator delivery LLoyd Freckleton, RAF FC, pilot Karen Frew-Thompson, Adairsville, GA, USA, lead to Keith Rodgers Val Frost, Ottawa: parents David Harry Archibald, Winnifred (Pat) Archibald (nee Keegan) were civilian employees of the RAF FC at the main Dorval base, QC Liz Fryer, Kitchener, ON, Canada - daughter of Art Jones, Waterloo, ON, sister of Alan Jones Dick Gentry Roderick Goff, 94, Gander, NL, Canada, weather forecaster Gander, December 1940, heard from

control tower about the runway crash of Hudson T9465, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees night of Dec. 29th, 1930

Barry M. Goldwater d 1988 at age 89 - was assigned as a pilot to an organization called Ferry Command http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater: In obituary on his death, which Bart Barnes Washington Post staff

writer wrote on its Saturday, May 30th

, 1998; Page A01, which appeared on-line at, - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater30.htm “During World War II, Mr. Goldwater tried but was unable to get a combat flying assignment. He did get an assignment to the Ferry Command, a newly formed unit made up mostly of overage pilots who delivered aircraft and supplies to war zones all over the world, and he spent most of the war flying between the United States and India, via the Azores and North Africa or South America, Nigeria and Central Africa.” The Ferry Command cited in this report was most likely the RAF Ferry Command, because no United States Army Air Force unit was generally known publicly by those two words alone … Ferry … and … Command.

Hugh Hughes (Hughie) Green, England TV game show host was RCAF pilot seconded to RAF FC Carlisle Edgar Grafton, RAF FC Captain Basil Hall

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______________________________________________________________ James Stewart Hansen RAF FC radio operator, seconded from RAAF; daughter is Nora Hansen, Barrie, ON; Gerry Harmann, 1986, Sicamous, BC, lead to his father, Ivan Harmann Ivan Harmann, 1986, Westbank, BC, RCAF Gander, sawed off propeller tip from T9465,

Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees on Dec. 30th, 1940, the night it crashed on takeoff from Gander, NL

John Frederick (Arthur) Hayes, RAAF - India, early 1944, where he was seconded to RAF FC Keith Louis Bate Hodson Joan Hunter, daughter, Cyril Joseph Stamp Oliver Simon Huss, RAF FC Captain, d, North Dakota, USA, 30 trips, lost at sea Nov-30-1942 -lead from

D. Jacklin, a member of the RAF Bircham Newton Memorial Project

Adele Jardine, Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, Canada, lead to Edison MacLennan Alan Jones, Kitchener, ON, son of Art Jones Art Jones, 92, RAF FC, radio operator, Waterloo, ON, seconded from Royal Australian Air Force, trained under British Commonwealth Air Training Plan as 1-tripper, joined pool of RAF FC radio operators Mickey Jones, friend of Arthur Symons, RAF FC, Caribbean, previously BOAC pilot Kirk Kerkorian, Los Angeles, CA - RAF FC pilot Ed Kern, RAF FC, flew with Bidell Charlie Kotsaftis, Aunt is Thea Strassburg, uncle is George Evans, Charlie provided fascinating write-up on George Gerry LaFlamme (maintenance), Ferry Command Association, Canadair Ed Landsell, many pix RAF FC various bases Ken Lebeau, RAF FC, crewed with Willie Bidell, 1st Liberator delivery Albert Leeward, brother of Ray Leeward, also RAF FC pilot John Leeward, son of Ray Leeward Linda Raye Leeward-Zibelli, daughter of Ray Leeward, see Joe Zibelli Ray Leeward, RAF FC Pilot Frank Leigh, e-mail to me June 20, 2004, he’s suggested NFB to pay attention, SEE SNIP shot bottom of file Malcolm Lewis, Wolverhampton, England, through Wick re Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees - RAF Squadron # 269 Al Lilly, RAF FC test pilot Littlejohn First Officer RAF FC, from Bowie George Lothian, early ATFERO pilot, later Trans-Canada Air Lines Paul Lowman, Danish pilot, in 1938 he taught a lion how to aqua-plane, made headlines Roderick MacGregor, from Burke, Paul Newman information Arthur Reginald MacWilliams, from Burke, Paul Newman information Ken McClelland, seconded to RAF FC from RCAF, posted with his new bride Edith Aitchison in Nassau Edison MacLennan, lead from his niece, Adele Jardine Ernest Archibald "PeeWee" McNab, seconded to RAF FC July 21st, 1942, pilot- DFC, OBE

NOTE FROM: http://flyingforyourlife.com/pilots/ww2/mc/mcnab/ web site “Other Canadians, members of the Royal Air Force, have already distinguished themselves and won coveted decorations, but Squadron Leader McNab is the first member of the R.C.A.F. to take to the skies against the Germans in this war.”

Patrick McTaggart-Cowan, “McFog”, ATFERO - RAF FC, noted weatherman par excellence Don McVicar, RAF FC pioneer pilot Donna McVicar-Kazo, Davie, FL, USA, daughter of Don McVicar Gordon McVicar, son of Donald McVicar, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada SEE BOTTOM THIS FILE FOR HIS LIST OF OTHER NAMES OF RAF FC PERSONNEL from Gordon

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______________________________________________________________ Roland Masse RAF FC, 1943 radio operator, lead from Gander Airport Historical Society (GAHS) Jimmy Mattern famous American pilot, Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees, round world flight attempt, 1, 000th Hudson C.P. Meagher RAF FC, Radio officer, crew with Marco Polo Kathy Mitchell, daughter Gordon Upton Bill Moore RAF FC pilot joined 1943, Lebanon, FL, USA Dominique Agrinier Mouligné, France- her father was Jean Mouligné

Jean Mouligné, France - piloted 75 crossings as an aircrew member of the RAF FC Erik Douglas Nilson, one of early civilians hired by Canadian Pacific Railway’s ATFERO, later RAF FC,

shift supervisor and civilian navigator / mechanic, one of few who told his family that he was sworn to secrecy, so told his family little about his service within the RAF FC

Linda Nilson-Rogers, Mississippi Mills, ON- Canada, lead to her dad, Erik Douglas Nilson, Leif Kaare Pay, from Paul Newman information Clyde Edward Pangborn, Senior RAF FC captain, flew 170 missions delivering bombers Kenneth Albert Graham Prater, RAF FC, Warrant Officer, pilot, died in take-off crash in Cornwall, England 1945 Jim Reid at War44.com

His grandfather: RAF FC delivered fighters and Lancaster bombers during the end years of the war Ian Roberts - NJ, USA, paramedic, son of Geoffrey A. S. Roberts, Geoffrey A. S. Roberts, American RAF FC pilot - he was one of the pilots assigned to the AL504 Commando and Churchill

on a number of occasions; began as a wireless operator for RAF FC Alan Rodgers, RAF FC, Flight Engineer, Otley, Yorkshire, England, the Navigator on his aircraft was killed by German anti-aircraft guns which were fired as it neared the coast of Normandy and

its First Officer was wounded in the process Keith Rodgers brother to Alan Rodgers, who researched about his brother, see Karen Frew-Thompson Linda Nilson-Rogers, Mississippi Mills, ON, lead to her father, Erik Douglas Nilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt USA President in WWII, before Truman Ellspeth Russell, from Pierre Thiffault, she joined ATA in Canada Anne Sarsfield, civilian whose dad, John Redmond Sarsfield, was in RAF FC John Redmond Sarsfield, RAF FC Gordon Saunders RAF FC, navigator, from The Contact, RCAF 8 Wing, Trenton, ON, Canada Alex Scott posted RAF Squadron 269 in Wick, saw Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees aircraft signatures

on the inside panels Bud Scouten, RAF FC, later Canadair test pilot John R. Scott, (Maj., retired) 25 years RCAF

National Governor Air Cadet League of Canada, Chair Ontario Aviation Committee Jim Scouten, son of Bud Scouten Larry Sellick, RAF FC, radio operator, friend of Louis Lang Owen Sherry, Sat-July 4th, 1942, - fatal Mitchell Bomber FL 214 crash Cyril Joseph Stamp, father of Joan Hunter M J C Stanley, Wing Commander, seconded to RAF FC from RAF E. Stafford RAF FC, Captain, lead from Jacobus Maarschalkerweerd, Denmark Gord Stemson - RAF FC - aircrew, from Peter Dawson, Van Island, concerning an air search by aircraft crew on a

Return Ferry Service - RFS - flight, looking for the German battleship Bismarck George Stockdill, served with RAF FC in Gander, NL, Canada and in Bermuda, from daughter,

Vicki Bouchard in Victoria, BC, brother Wayne, in New Westminster, BC and cousin Garry, Yorkshire, England Theah Strassburg, St. Louis, Missouri, aunt to Charlie Kotsaftis, her grandfather was George Evans She wrote about her grandfather on her Facebook Page, March 15th, 2014:

“My grandfather, George Evans, flew for the RAF Ferry Command. His plane disappeared into the Atlantic on July 4, 1945. I will have to dig out one of the books written about the era which mentions him. I am thinking of him. Neither his plane nor any remnants of it were ever found.”

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______________________________________________________________ Barbara Swanston, Campbell River, BC, Canada, leads to her dad, Kenneth Charles Young Charles Marinus Sundby RAF FC Captain, promoted March 1943, 600 trips into China Eric Charles Sundby, nephew of Charles Arthur Randy Symons, pilot seconded from RCAF, youngest of 3 Symons brothers who served with Ferry

Command, friend of Mickey Jones, RAF FC, Caribbean Don Teel, OBE, RAF FC Captain, info from Alex Bowie Pierre Thiffault, Montréal QC, Canada, lead to Elspeth Russell, ATA woman pilot;

Pierre also provided information about an aircrew member who fell from the wheel-well of a bomber leaving Dorval airport onto ice on Lake St. Louis (now Lac-St-Louis), QC

Keith Thompson, RAF FC, Flying Officer Robert Toombs, White Rock, BC, Canada, collector of RAF FC mailed envelopes Harry Traynor RAF FC Captain Charles Trower, Coronach / Scobey Border Station, Saskatchewan, Canada Myros Tuchak, RAF FC- Flying Officer, commended for valuable services - lead from Air Force Association of Canada Gordon Upton, Navigator, RAF FC, seconded from the RAAF, married Elizabeth Easton … from daughter Kathy Mitchell, Australia John Varner, Special Collections & Archives, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, Ralph Brown Draughon

Library Richard K. Smith papers Bill Walker Canadian Military Aircraft Serials, http://www.rwrwalker.ca/ Dorothy White, wife of late George White, FAC FC radio operator A. Wright, RAF FC, FL Engineer, aircrew on Marco Polo John Steen Wyndham, RAF FC, R/O 1942, 1945, seconded from the Canadian Infantry Corps, Served in

Boucherville, QC and Gander, NL Kenneth Charles Young, trained under the BCATP in Canada, seconded from Royal Australian Air Force

to RAF FC, from daughter Barbara Swanston Joe Zibelli, put me in contact with his former wife, Linda Raye Leeward-Zibelli ____________

Known RAF FC only, some done completely, others to follow-up as time and resources permit John Affleck, Flight Engineer, Commando Alexander Albulet, civilian from Louise Erdely

Herbert Lawson Blakely - Britain and Canada Moderator - Gentleman's Military Interest Club - Great Britain & Commonwealth Realms

Commonwealth Realms: Canada, New Zealand & Australia Medals & Militaria Gerald Champniss, RAF FC, First Officer, flew with civilian RAF FC pilots Bendall, Dalton, Dobbin,

Fitzgerald and Newkirk, and with RAF FC’s # 231 Telecommunications Squadron, from his son, Kim Clark Champniss

Kin Clark Champniss, Canadian television personality and musician, VJ for MuchMusic in the 1980s Carl Christie, author, Ocean Bridge, the “official” history of the RAF FC Clarence Rudolf Dobbin Roderick Goff, weatherman Gander, NL, 1940, witness to Spirit of Lockheed-Vega Employees runway crash Alan Jones, Kitchener, ON, son of Art Jones

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______________________________________________________________ Art Jones - Waterloo, ON, 92 - seconded: Royal Australian Air Force to RAF FC as radio operator, O.P. Jones, RAF FC Captain, Chief Pilot, pre-war Imperial Airways Kirk Kerkorian, Los Angeles, CA, one of the few veterans still with us, born June 6th, 1917, lured to Canada by advertisement placed by the international Clayton-Knight Committee Louis Lang, one of the few veterans still with us, born 1922, radio operator, RAF FC, waged 35+ year-long battle with

bureaucracy to obtain full rights and privileges, in 1980, for Ferry Command air crews and all who served on aircraft in other capacities, from the Canadian Department of Veterans‘ Affairs … said he “was amazed to learn in the autumn of 2014 that Canada’s Minister of Veterans’ Affairs did not even know about the RAF FC.”

Sheldon Luck, First Chief Pilot, Canadian Pacific Air Lines, delivery pilot RAF FC, later transferred to #231 Telecommunications Squadron … operational division of RAF FC … earned King’s Commendation; became known as Churchill’s personal mailman wherever Churchill flew out of England, subject of two biographies: Walking on Air (1986); a new version re-titled Pilot of Fortune, published as an expanded book in 2009

Tommy Mahan Don McVicar - probably the most prolific pilot / author to come out of the RAF FC Donna McVicar Kazo (pronounced Kay-Zo), Don McVicar’s daughter, Davie, FL, USA: works with her brother

Gordon and daughter Christina in publishing web sites on her father along with publishing updated and new versions of his books dealing with the RAF FC

Peter Monahan, source for Blakely Mowat RAF FC, Flight Officer, crewed with Willie Bidell Frederick Scrafton Larry Sellick, Ottawa, ON Tim Sims Ron Snow, Radio Operator, RAF FC - Ancaster, ON Rick Smith, source for Crafton George Stockdill George White RAC FC, radio operator, his wife is Dorothy John Steen (Jack) Wyndham radio op, seconded as a navigator from Canadian army Greg, grandson to Wyndham ______________________________________________________________________________

Miscellaneous , unknown Ted Barris, lead from John Scott, prolific author on Canada’s role in WW II

From Terry Barker’s NETLETTER, December 3, 1944, in the Lancaster TCA-100 of the Canadian Government Trans-Atlantic Air Service. The TCA pilots were Captain M. B. "Jock" Barclay and 2nd Captain "Kelly" Edmison.

John Fisher, from Jock Barclay, TCA captain, re airmail service in support of RAF FC 1944

Gordon McVicar, non-alphabetical list of other RAF FC personnel, from Gordon’s web site: http://www.donmcvicar.com/survivor.htm

Capt. Don Douglas, Richmond, BC, Canada Capt. Herb Huston, Long Island, NY, USA

Capt. Don Teel, Palm Beach, FL Capt. Paul L .Lowman, S.Miami, FL

F/L (RCAF) Art Teulon, Ft. Lauderdale, FL R/N John J. McGrail, Ottawa, ON, Canada Eng. Jerry LaGrave, Rawdon, QC, Canada

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______________________________________________________________ F/E Tom Colohan, Dorval, QC

Nav (RCAF) A.J. Fry, Long Sault, ON, Canada 1/O Fred Hotson, Toronto, ON, Canada

Cr/as Gwen Heinrich, Kirkland, QC Capt. A.F. Jarrett, Charleston, WV, USA

F/E Frank Staskow, Pointe Claire, QC R/N (RCAF) Bob Walker, Hudson Heights, QC

R/O W.R. Lohnes, BC Capt. LLoyd Freckleton, Mission, BC R/O Jean Lalande, Maple Ridge, BC

Capt. F/L (RCAF) Allan G. McCrae, Etobicoke, ON Nav. F/L (RCAF) E.E. (Ted) Biss, Mississauga, ON

F/L (RCAF) Edgar (Ed) Gordon Levy, Cornwall, ON MGEN Ret., (RCAF) G.A. (Bud) Heck, New Smyrna Beach, FL

F/O Jim Ross Norman Lucas, Vankleek Hill, ON

Henry Flory Andre Duchesnay, Montréal, QC

F/L R/N (R.C.A.F.) Art Manwaring, Toronto, ON Nav. Alex Reeve, Langley, BC

Tony Westmacott, Victoria, BC Don Clarkson, Saltspring Island, BC

Glynn Jones, Sydney, BC R/N Norm Grover, Ottawa, ON

Bill Baker, Jeff Heinrich, Herb Huston, Art Jarrett, Oonah McFee, John McGrail, C.N. 'Slim' Munson, Bill Whipps _____________________________________________________________________

Names provided from other sources Frank S. Adams, Crew Chief, RAF FC George Brown, R/O, RAF FC Richard Coates, R/O, RAF FC John McIntyre, R/O, RAF FC From the Royal Canadian Air Force Association web page at http://rcafassociation.ca/uploads/airforce/2009/07/ALPHA-GI.GL.html: Alec Paddon Gibbs, RAF FC, Flight Sergeant, June 1943 to August 1945 George MacDougall Gillespie, Squadron Leader, RAF FC, June 1943 to August 1945 (instructor and flight commander) William Lorne Gillespie, RAF FC L.H. Warriner, awarded AFC for Ferry Command service