Raymond Collishaw, CB, DSO & Bar, OBE, DSC, DFC (22 November 1893 – 28 September 1976) was a distinguished Canadian fighter pilot, squadron leader, and...
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terminal was named in honour of World War I ace Raymond Collishaw who was born in Nanaimo. The Nanaimo-Collishaw Air Terminal is the passenger terminal for...
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Maria Black Maria, the airplane flown by Canadian World War I ace Raymond Collishaw "Black Maria", the first parking meter Black Maria, an informal nickname...
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"Black Flight". This all-Canadian flight was commanded by the ace Raymond Collishaw. Their aircraft, named Black Maria, Black Prince, Black George, Black...
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military, and humanitarian efforts in Africa", Nina Berman, 2004 "Raymond Collishaw World War I Fighter Ace". www.constable.ca. Archived from the original...
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victories, British Mick Mannock, with 61 confirmed victories, Canadian Raymond Collishaw, with 60, and British James McCudden, with 57 confirmed victories...
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down on them. Raymond Collishaw was leading the British assault. When he realized the second force of Germans was on his tail, Collishaw took a hasty long-range...
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Anti-Treaty IRA. Father of Erskine Childers, fourth President of Ireland. Raymond Collishaw – Naval 10 – top RNAS ace, with 60 victories Roderic Dallas – Commanding...
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The Civil War. ISBN 978-0-7806-3887-7. OCLC 52791424. Gunn, Roger. Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight (Toronto: Dundurn, 2013), p. 206 Holmes, Wilfrid...
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the entire squadron typically flying two missions a day. Colonel Raymond Collishaw noted on an April visit that Brown looked exhausted: he had lost 11 kg...
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Blenheims. Prior to the Italian invasion of Egypt, under Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, the RAF in Egypt—which comprised nine squadrons—focused its activities...
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Battalion (World War I) United States Fighter ace Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw Canada General Sir Arthur William Currie Canada Fighter ace Major...
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aerial victories during the First World War, Canadian Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw is considered the third-highest-scoring Allied pilot of the entire...
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CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Roger Gunn (2013). Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight. Dundurn. pp. 190–. ISBN 978-1-4597-0660-6. T...
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Claxton, baseball pitcher who broke US baseball's racial colour barrier Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I flying ace Allison Crowe, singer-songwriter...
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attack succeeded in breaking up the German advance. Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, commanding 204 Group RAF (renamed the Desert Air Force), wrote to...
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Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time 1970 Raymond Collishaw Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story 1973 Donald Wilson Wooing Peponi:...
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Kaganovich, Soviet politician, Great Purge perpetrator (d. 1991) Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (d. 1976) November 27 – Carlos Alberto...
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situation rapidly deteriorated for the RAF in mid-April. Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw, commanding 204 Group RAF (renamed the Desert Air Force), wrote to...
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Marshal Italo Balbo, p. 124. Bechthold, Mike (2017). Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941. University of Oklahoma...
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served as the headquarters of the Desert Air Force (Air Commodore Raymond Collishaw). On 28 June, Marshal of the Air Force (Maresciallo dell'Aria) Italo...
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Middle East Command, to take over 204 Group from Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw. Two months later, to match its growing size and its status with the...
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84 Squadron when he shot down five German aircraft on 19 May 1918. Raymond Collishaw, a Canadian who was the top scoring Royal Naval Air Service ace, piloted...
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was then under the command of Canadian flying ace Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw from 21 March 1942 until the Group was finally disbanded on 15 July...
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Yugoslav chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) September 28 – Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (b. 1893) October 5 Lars Onsager...
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1941. pp. 4781–4782. Bechthold, Michael (2017). Flying to Victory: Raymond Collishaw and the Western Desert Campaign, 1940–1941. Norman: University of...
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S. Breadner, future Air Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force; Raymond Collishaw, sixth scoring ace of the war; and Tom F. Hazell, the Royal Air Force's...
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only British pilots Billy Bishop (72) and Mick Mannock (61) and Raymond Collishaw (60) would surpass his total while serving with the RFC (and later...
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November 1915 in Ottawa. He was among the original Canadians (along with Raymond Collishaw) to be trained. He was posted on 1 May 1916 to No.3 (Naval) Wing,...
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