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	History
		The squadron reformed at RCAF Station Summerside on 8 July 1968 as 413 Rescue Squadron, absorbing elements of 103 Rescue Unit.
		The squadron was reformed on April 30, 1951, at RCAF Station Greenwood as 404 Maritime Reconnaissance Squadron.
		Reformed on 1 August 1951 as an All-Weather Fighter Squadron at RCAF Station Bagotville, 413 was renamed in November as a Fighter Squadron and, on 7 march 1953, they moved to 3 Wing Zweibrucken, Germany, where they stayed until they were disbanded on 7 April 1957.
	gmam.ednet.ns.ca /history.htm

	Bruce Forsyth 's Military History Page
		RCAF Station MacDonald closed on 31 May 1959 and storage depot for Air Maintenance Command was established at the former station.
		With the end of the war, activity at the station was greatly reduced and most of the RCAF Squadrons re-located elsewhere.
		All that remains of RCAF Detachment Hartney is the abandoned and crumbling airfield and a quonset hut.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/2529

	CFB Summerside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The February 1, 1968 unification of the three service branches into the Canadian Armed Forces saw RCAF Station Summerside change its name to Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Summerside.
		The airfield was home to training squadrons operating under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan with nearby aerodromes at RCAF Station Mount Pleasant and RCAF Station Charlottetown.
		The main runway at Summerside is more capable for large aircraft than the Charlottetown Airport, although no scheduled air service includes the Summerside field.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/RCAF_Station_Summerside

	wiki/RCAF Definition / wiki/RCAF Research
		By the late 1960s, the RCAF was actively involved in the aerial defence of Canada, North America, and Europe, as well as performing maritime coastal patrols on Canada's east and west coasts as part of anti-submarine operations, and finally, the RCAF was heavily involved with the USAF in operating radar early warning stations across Canada.
		The RCAF played key roles in the Battle of Britain A major campaign of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name for the attempt by Germany's Luftwaffe to gain control of British airspace and destroy the Royal Air Force (RAF).
		The Soviet threat to Europe also saw the RCAF filling a large part of NATO 's air forces during the early-mid 1950s with the backbone being the Avro CF-100 The Avro CF-100 "Canuck" was a Canadian jet fighter used during the Cold war.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/RCAF

	Summerside Hospitality During WWII
		The training facility that was built on farmland in North St. Eleanors became known as RCAF Station Summerside.
		The Mark V aircraft on the Station reached a high of 118 at the end of May as other stations began to disperse their aircraft prior to closing.
		The official beginning of the No. 1 R & NS in Summerside was on February 4, 1945.
	www.wyattheritage.com /hospitality/main.asp?level1=station&level2=none&level3=none

	RCAF.com : Stations : Canadian Stations
		RCAF Station / CFB Summerside, Prince Edward Island
		RCAF Station / CFB / 15 Wing Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
		RCAF Station / CFB / 3 Wing Bagotville, Quebec
	www.rcaf.com /stations/canadian.php

	RCAF Station - CFB Summerside
		Fire Chief's Of RCAF Station - CFB Summerside 1940 - 1991
	firehouse651.com /chiefssummerside.htm

	Sydner, BS - 1957 - Narrative Report - National Archives of Canada
		At the request of the RCMP a number of Station personnel, together with emergency equipment, were dispatched to the Mire area to fight bush fires which were threatening the popular resort settlement in that area.
		This evening, the Station branch of the NDEA held a lobster boil at Kenwood Pavilion on the Mira River, in honour of S/L and Mrs.
		This is the first venture of this nature in Station history and although attendance was not quite up to expectations, those present voted the evening to be a most enjoyable one and it is expected that future dances will be even more successful.
	grostenquin.org /other/other42/other42o.html

	CAHS Prince Edward Island Chapter Newsletter
		It was not until Jul. 7, 1945, that #2 ANS RCAF was re-located to Station Summerside.
		On Feb.1, 1946, the responsibility for Charlottetown airport was transferred from the RCAF to the Federal Department of Transport.
		A funeral for AC1 F.G. Shore who died at the PEI Hospital from acute appendicitis was held at the Station recreation centre and laid to rest at the Sherwood Cemetery on Nov.
	www.cahs.com /NewsAndViews/PrinceEdwardIslandNewsletter.htm

	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Charlottetown airfield in the nearby rural community of Sherwood was upgraded as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and operated for the duration of World War II as RCAF Station Charlottetown, in conjunction with RCAF Station Mount Pleasant and RCAF Station Summerside.
		Aside from being the seat of colonial government, the community came to be noted during the early 19th century for shipbuilding and its lumber industry as well as being a fishing port.
		As with most communities in North America, the automobile shaped Charlottetown's development in the latter half of the 20th century, when outlying farms in rural areas of Brighton, Spring Park, and Parkdale saw increased housing developments.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charlottetown

	.: Slemon Park Corporation Corporate History :.
		On February 1, 1968 RCAF Station Summerside was renamed Canadian Forces Base Summerside.
		The base was named R.C.A.F. Station Summerside and in 1941 became a permanent installation and home to the Air Navigational School, a training facility for NATO navigators.
		At that time, 413 Search and Rescue Squadron was relocated to Canadian Forces Base Summerside and became the home of SAR activities for the East Coast of Canada.
	www.slemonpark.com /about/history.cfm

	Shearwater Aviation Museum
		161 squadron formed as a Bomber Reconnaissance (BR) unit at RCAF Station Dartmouth NS on 28 April 1943.
		In May 1944 the squadron moved to Gaspe ¢ Quebec from where it also maintained detachments at Summerside PEI, Yarmouth NS and Sept-Isles Quebec.
		In November 1944 the squadron again moved to Yarmouth where it was disbanded on 31 May 1945.
	www.shearwateraviationmuseum.ns.ca /squadrons/161sqn.htm

	THE HISTORY OF THE VP INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
		On 7 February 1967, RCAF Station Summerside was given permission to form Number One Branch P-2000 Club with responsibility for the East Coast Maritime area.
		In December 1966 the Base Commander of RCAF Station Summerside, PEI indicated that there were some 12 prospective members on the 2 (M)OTU with a willingness to form a club.
		In a memorandum to his Squadron, the Commanding Officer, Wing Commander Herb Smale, announced that "effective 1 May 1966 the 407 Squadron Neptune Club would be brought into being", at RCAF Station Comox, British Columbia, Canada.
	www.vpinternational.ca /HISTORY/INDEX.HTM

	Group Album - Firefighter Group Photographs....
		RCAF Station Summerside 1967 Donated By Paul Oltsher
		RCAF Station Dartmouth 1943 Donated By John Lagace
		RCAF Station Tofino 1944 Donated By Paul Oltsher
	firehouse651.com /group.htm

	Shearwater Aviation Museum
		Therefore, on 1 December 1948 the RCAF turned the air station over the RCN, which according to naval custom renamed the air station HMCS Shearwater ; also known as Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater.
		As the fourth largest air force in the world during the Second World War the RCAF was in the process of downsizing to its peacetime compliment in the post-war era.
		Tracker operations ceased at Shearwater in the summer of 1981 when MR 880 was transferred to Summerside PEI.
	www.shearwateraviationmuseum.ns.ca /history/rcn.htm

	HONOURS AND AWARDS TO CANADIAN FORCES PERSONNEL
		A: Gazetted awards to all RCAF personnel for services 1947 to 1970, whether for flying or non-flying duties; it does not enter the period of distinctive Canadian awards instituted 1967-1972.
		On the night of 27 April, 1962, a fire occurred in a third floor apartment of the RCAF married quarters located at St. Avold, eleven miles from 2 Fighter Wing, Grostenquin, France, in which a boy of twelve and three infants, aged two years and below, were sleeping.
		Educated in Scotland; served two tours with RAF before joining RCAF in Toronto, 1956; posted to No.433 Squadron, December 1957.
	www.airforce.ca /postwar/POSTWAR.DEC.html

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		Retired 1966 as CADO at RCAF Station Rockcliffe.
		Assigned to Korea as one of 22 RCAF fighter pilots to serve with USAF.
		Transferred to RCAF, trained as a WAG at #4 Wireless School, Guelph, Ont; BandG phase on Battles at Fingal, Ont. Posted UK, to AFU for training on Ansons.
	www.rcafmuseum.on.ca /videopage4.htm

	Squadrons 410 to 419
		Reformed as 415 Maritime Patrol Squadron, at RCAF Station Summerside.
		Moved to No. 6 (RCAF) Group of Bomber Command at RCAF Station East Moor.
		Reformed as 414 (Fighter) Squadron at RCAF Bagotville, Quebec.
	jfchalifoux.com /squadrons_410_to_419.htm

	Beaverbank, NS - 1961 - Narrative Report - National Archives of Canada
		A station wagon was dispatched with the Nursing Sister and the airmen were returned to the unit, apparently not requiring hospitalization.
		Insecurity - While on station patrol the north sliding door leading to the warehouse in CE section was found to be insecure.
		RCAF bus driven by LAC D McLaughlin and semi-trailer owned by Eastern Woodworkers involved in accident on Highway #1 at Lower Sackville.
	www.pinetreeline.org /other/other6/other6t.html

	Propwash April 2000
		It was based at RCAF Station Summerside, where it would remain for twenty years moving to Greenwood in June, 1981.
		In 1952, the RCAF issued a requirement for an aircraft to replace the aging bombers and, realizing that the Lancaster’s could not be expected to soldier on until the arrival of their replacements, ordered Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune’s “off the line” to act as a modern stand-in until the arrival of the new aircraft.
		I was sitting at the FE station on the aircraft (this aircraft is the one that is now on display at the Trenton Memorial Museum) doing my log.
	www.cmfea.ca /pw12-ed.htm

	S Members
		In 1945, he was named commander of the air element of Operation Muskox in the Canadian Arctic, and served as commanding officer of the RCAF station at Fort St. John, B.C. In 1952, he planned and completed the first accurate mapping of the Canadian Arctic.
		Rayne Schultz served in the RCAF and CF for more than 36 years, the last ten of that were as the Director of Flight Safety.
		As Director of Technical Services of the RCAF, Stedman was at the centre of every major technical development which the RCAF established, including the development of Canada's first jet-engine.
	www.cahf.ca /members/S_members.htm

	RAF-lincolnshire.info :: 415 Squadron
		It subsequently reformed on 1 May 1961 as 415 Maritime Patrol Squadron at RCAF Station Summerside, moving to CFB Greenwood on 1 Jul 1981 where it remains today.
		In Jul 1944 with No 6 (RCAF) Group of Bomber Command stood up, the Sqn was transfered on to RCAF East Moor to rerole as a Halifax heavy-bomber sqn.
		415 Torpedo Bomber Sqn RCAF flew exclusively from British airfields during its 4-year initial formation in the Second World War and was the RCAF's only torpedo sqn.
	www.raf-lincolnshire.info /415sqn/415sqn.htm

	RCAF - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about RCAF
		RCAF is not available in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
		You may also use the word browser links:
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /RCAF

	The SPYder UFO News
		Re: UFO Report, RCAF Station, Sea Island, November 27, 1953
		066 10/23/60 NICAP Kaasen to RCAF re: UFO secrecy AFL200-2 & JANAP-146D
		RCAF regarding UFO that landed in Teepee Creek, Alberta on
	vs03.tvsecure.com /~vs030f1/ufo.html

	RCL Biography -- Dominion Secretary -- R. Duane Daly, OStJ, MSM, CD, BA
		After graduating with a BA from St. Patrick's College, Ottawa University, he completed air training as a Navigator at RCAF Station Winnipeg in 1967.
		He also serves on the Advisory Committee of the Canadian War Museum, is a Vice President of the Valiants Foundation, a Director of the RCAF Benevolent Fund and the Canadian Battlefileds Foundation.
		Daly served in a wide variety of appointments which included Commanding Officer of 415 Maritime Patrol Squadron, Greenwood, Nova Scotia; Base Commander of Canadian Forces Base Summerside, Prince Edward Island; and Area Commander of Canadian Forces Northern Area with headquarters in Yellowknife, the Northwest Territories.
	www.legion.ca /asp/docs/about/pop_sec_e.htm

	RR/RMC CLASS OF ENTRY 1949 HOMEPAGE
		Being rather parsimonious, the RCAF moved me down the road to help open the radar station at Yorkton (the only station at which the "hill" was lower than the domestic site).
		I signed up with the RCAF while she was away.
		This posting was rather short-lived because the station was closed in 1962.
	classof49-53.rmcclub.ca /3157-3169.htm

	Memorandum Regarding Surplus Properties
		24 RU - Tignish, PEI - RCAF Station Summerside
		The buildings at the following Radio Units are now surplus to RCAF requirements and may be declared surplus with effect from this date:
		NCHQ, CAC and NWAC have been instructed this date in letters of even file to remove immediately installed and stored equipment from the buildings at the units listed in para 1 above.
	www.pinetreeline.org /rds/detail/rds99-28.html

	april.html
		The "unsinkable" Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks, the first place in Canada to pick up her distress single in the marconi wireless station at Cape Bear, PEI.
		Some 300 colonists recruited by the Compagnie de I'lle St. Jean leave Rochefort in three ships to found a colony on lle St. Jean.
	www.edu.pe.ca /gray/pei/today/april.html

	14 Wing - Squadrons & Units - Maritime Proving and Evaluation Unit - History
		The Maritime Proving and Evaluation Unit (MPandEU) was commissioned on 1 April 1959, at RCAF Station Greenwood, N.S., and began operations at RCAF Station Summerside, P.E.I., in July of that year.
		After almost twenty years at Summerside, MPandEU returned to 14 Wing Greenwood in August 1978, prior to the introduction of the CP-140 Aurora into the Canadian Forces
		In the late '50s, with the introduction of the Argus into operational service, it became apparent that there was a need for a unit dedicated to evaluating the many new avionics systems contained in that Aircraft.
	www.airforce.dnd.ca /14wing/squadron/mpeuhist_e.asp

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