RCAF No. 440 Squadron

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'City of Ottawa' Beavers "Ka Gannawaitak Saguenay" (He Who Protects the Saguenay) Squadron Code Letters "I8"   Squadron Score 1 / 0 / 0

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On 8 February 1944, after moving to England to take part in the battle for Europe, No.111 Squadron was redesignated 440 (Fighter Bomber) Squadron ...

 ... 440 was disbanded on 7 September 1945.

"Pilots of the city of Ottawa "Beaver" squadron are shown about one of their Typhoon fighter bombers on an advanced RCAF airfield in Normandy along with senior wing and airfield officers and "Smokey" the alsatian mascot."

B-9 Normandy, 4 August 1944

Standing on the wing: F/L Ronald Doidge* & F/O John Dewar*

On the spinner: F/O Sandy Colville* with F/L Donald Jenvey* & F/O Arthur Simond behind him

Seated on the wings: F/O James Beatty, F/O Donald Wright, F/O Delbert English, F/O Currie Gardner, F/O Gordon Russell, F/S Leonard Gordon, F/O James Stewart & F/O Roger McCurdy*

Standing: F/O John Gordon, F/O Francis Crowley*, W/C Mike Judd, G/C Paul Davoud, S/L William Pentland*, F/L Harold Gooding, F/L Jack Bonner (airfield adjutant), F/O Donald Campbell & F/O Ramsay Milne

Kneeling: F/O Clifford Osborne, F/O Robert Hattie, Dr. Roger Dunne, F/L Clifford Hicks*, F/O Antony Frombolo, F/O Walter Ward, S/L Donald Brownlee (airfield admin. officer), F/O Ray Collis, F/O Bert Daykin (intelligence officer) & WO2 Richard Watson

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