Ceremony remembers Canadas contribution to the Battle of Britain [Video]

Hundreds gathered on the apron at 12 Wing Shearwater Sunday morning in a ceremony to remember Canada’s contribution to the Battle of Britain.

“It was a tremendous pleasure and honour to host this event,” says Col. David Holmes, commander of 12 Wing Shearwater.

Laying a wreath at a makeshift memorial, Iain Macdonald says he still has memories of Germany’s powerful Luftwaffe flying bombing raids over the United Kingdom.

“I was just a little kid in Scotland when it all went overhead,” Macdonald says.

“My earliest memory is being a kid at the window and being taken downstairs and I realize now that I couldn’t have been more than two.”

After moving to Canada, Macdonald became a member of the army, but he says he’ll always remember that moment at the window.

“It’s the only reason I remember, I was too young to have words for it, but my parent’s terror …