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 …