By Barbara Westfall - My Dad on the right of this photo, Bill Buck RCAF and was with 35 Sqaudron, Pathfinders Division. He was a navigator. Earned the DFC. So proud of my Dad!
Pilot Officer Michael Holub J/10250, Age 25, Pilot of Wellington Ic. HE116, presumed lost over the North Sea along with the five other members of his crew, 14th September 1942. The bodies of three crewmen were later washed ashore; Michael and two other crew members were lost without trace and they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial.
Sergeant Charles, Martin, Johnson, Service Number R/83461 Royal Canadian Air Force, 51 (R.A.F.) Squadron, Age 21 years old. Charles was sadly one of 7 airmen killed when Halifax II HR783, crashed due to engine failure at Bush Farm, Crockley Hill near Escrick, 6 miles South, South, East of York. We Will Remember Them
The story of R.C.A.F. Albert Ridge Warington (Former Air Gunner, also Pilot, 415 Squadron 1943 - 1945) as told by his son.
Where to start well my father’s name Albert Ridge Warington born May 12, 1917 in Toronto while his father was in France with the Canadian expeditionary force at Vimy Ridge hence the middle name Ridge for my father.
They moved to Detroit Michigan in 1923 where he remained until October of 1940 when he crossed into Windsor Ontario to join the Canadian army. He was assigned to the 1st armor and became the driver for brig. General Thomas J. Rutherford. In August of 1941 met and married my mother in Hamilton, Ontario. Then in November of 1941 was shipped into England. While there in London during the blitz and bombing was present to much of the planning for the sixth of June 1944. But in November of 1943 convinced the brig to let him transfer to the Royal Canadian Air Force hoping to become a pilot seeing as he already had a pilots license from the 30’s, but having already shot down a few invading planes was made a mid upper gunner in the Canadian 6th bomber force at Dishforth and in January of 45 was assigned to the 415th bomber and sent to Eastmoor near York. From his diary of this time I now quote.
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