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Canadian Armed Forces to patrol skies over Romania

The Canadian Armed Forces is sending about 135 personnel, and four Royal Canadian Air Force, CF-188 Hornets to Romania, to participate in NATO enhanced Air Policing from September to December 2017.

Flight Sergeant Mehew “Zip” Zobell, from Raymond, Alberta, and a member of 401 Squadron, returned from Dieppe with a wound in his forehead and his Spitfire damaged by enemy fire.

In the skies above: Dieppe, August 19, 1942

It was August 19, 1942, and Operation Jubilee was about to begin. The target was the French port of Dieppe. 

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Remembering the “Buffalo Nine”

On August 9, 1974, nine Canadian peackeepers were killed when their Buffalo aircraft was shot down over Syria. Today, August 9 is commemorated as National Peacekeepers’ Day.

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