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- Category: Aircraft
- The Canadian Lancasters
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- Our Museum’s Collection
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- Category: Avro Lancaster
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- Category: Art
- Rainer Picture – The Best of the Snowbirds
- Gravitas – An Art Installation in Landscape
- David Mould Collection
- Clarence Simonsen Nose Art
- Ian W. Bazalgette VC DFC
- Harold Veresh Collection
- The Nose Art on Joe McCarthy’s Lancasters
- John Rutherford Collection
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- Commemorative Paintings
- George Oliver – Nose Artist
- Clarence Simonsen Biography
- Canadian War Museum Nose Art Collection
- Nose Art – Willie Wolf
- Matthew Ferguson – Canada’s Greatest Nose Artist
- Muff Mills – Canadian Nose Artist
- Andy Kindret Collection
- Category: Nose Art
- Nose Art Archive
- Full Size Nose Art Replica Paintings
- Floyd Rutledge – Canadian Nose Artist
- American Airpower Heritage Museum Collection
- Nose Art – Archie The Archer
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- Nose Art – Jake Sent Me
- Nose Art – Jumpin Jiminy
- Nose Art – Notorious Nan
- Nose Art – Ol’ Daid Eye
- Nose Art – Veni, Vedi, Vici
- Nose Art – Ville De Quebec
- Nose Art – Willie The Wolf From The West
- Nose Art – Willie The Wolf
- Nose Art – Introduction
- Category: BCATP
- BCATP Station DeWinton
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- Aircraft of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
- Category: Aircraft of the BCATP
- Category: Bomber Command
- Operations Record Books
- No. 6 Group and the Canadian Squadrons
- Bomber Command’s Losses
- No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron
- Dambusters Raid – The Canadian Contribution
- Air Gunners
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- No. 429 (Bison) Squadron
- Engbrecht & Gillanders – RCAF Air Gunners
- Harlo “Terry” Taerum
- Operation Manna
- No. 431 (Iroquois) Squadron
- Americans in the RCAF
- No. 432 (Leaside) Squadron
- No. 424 (Tiger) Squadron
- No. 434 (Bluenose) Squadron
- Sinking of the Battleship Tirpitz
- No. 405 (Vancouver) Squadron
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- No. 415 (Swordfish) Squadron
- No. 419 (Moose) Squadron
- No. 420 (Snowy Owl) Squadron
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- No. 426 (Thunderbird) Squadron
- No. 427 (Lion) Squadron
- The Pathfinder Force (No. 8 Group)
- Canadian 408 Squadron Aircrew Losses
- A Typical Raid
- D-Day – Bomber Command’s Contribution
- BARNES WALLIS – The Dams, the Theory, the Weapon
- Guy Gibson – The Leader, the Squadron, the Training
- FLYING TO THE DAMS – Low Level
- THE MOHNE DAM – Success but “Hoppy” is Lost
- THE EDER DAM – No Defences but Difficult Flying
- THE SORPE DAM – A Supreme Effort
- THE FIGHT BACK TO SCAMPTON – Two More Lancasters are lost
- The Damage
- THE AFTERMATH – The Cheering and the Sacrifice
- The Glory, The Celebration, and Later Losses
- Bomber Command
- Air Gunner Tactics
- Gun Turrets
- The 379 Americans
- No. 6 Group Airfields
- Category: Dambusters Raid
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- Category: Chronicles
- Museum Archives
- Clifford MacKay McEwen – Nominee to the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame
- Ferrying Lancaster FM159 from Montreal to Prestwick
- Grand Slam
- Forty-Eight Operations with 405 Squadron – Doug Renton’s Story
- John Fraser & “Hoppy”
- The Tallboy Bomb – A Lancaster Delivered Earthquake
- Prisoners of War
- Making The Merlins Run
- S/L Donald Patterson DFC – A Calgarian’s War
- The Last Mission of RAF Lancaster KB834
- Air Gunner Stories
- Johnny Fauquier – Canada’s Greatest Bomber Pilot
- Fred Sutherland – The Last Canadian Dambuster
- Roy Chadwick – Archetect of Wings
- Sgt. (Pilot) Albert Stanley Prince
- P/O Barry Davidson P.O.W.
- Senantes and Nanton – Twinned Communities
- Karl Aalborg – First of the 10,673 Names
- The Dutch Resistance – One Family’s Experience
- War II Memories of Ronnie Groeneveld
- “Manna”
- A Thank You to the Bomber Boys – Ron Groeneveld and Joe English
- Tiger Force
- Air Crash Over Calgary
- The Promise – A Hamilton Connection to the Dambusters
- Ken Earnshaw – Lancaster Navigator
- Joe McCarthy – The RCAF’s American Dambuster
- Flak Over The River Canard
- F For Freddie – Calgary’s VE Day Tragedy
- My Son “A First Class Man” – Honouring Terry Taerum
- Reg Lane – The Legendary Canadian Pathfinder
- A Dambuster’s Daughter
- Norm Etheridge – Lancaster Restoration Engineer
- Thomas Fetherston – A Name in the Sand
- Tragedy in the Bull Creek Hills
- Warren Twins – Bruce and Douglas Warren
- Warren Twins – The Complete Story
- KB994 Flies Again – The Convoluted Story of a Canadian Lancaster
- Kingston Lake – Honouring P/O Philip Alan Kingston
- Minnie Simcoe DFC – No. 431 Squadron’s Mascot
- Wing Commander John “Moose” Fulton – The First “Mooseman”
- Murray Peden – A Thousand Shall Fall
- P/O Andrew Mynarski
- A Lancaster For Nanton – The Legacy of George White, Howard Armstrong and Fred Garratt
- Jock Palmer – The Grandfather of Alberta Aviation
- Pearce Aerodrome – Visiting with S/L Gosling, 35 years later
- Peenemunde – The Jim Love Story
- Excerpts from the Diary of F/L Richard P. Perry
- The “Pucker Factor”
- Robert Clothier – “Relic” of the Beachcombers was a Bomber Pilot
- The Military Career of W/C D. Stewart Robertson DFC
- The Legendary Rolls-Royce Merlin – One Second in the Life of a Racer
- Ron Jenkins, Lady Orchid, and Lancaster FM-213
- The Last Rover – Four young Mountain Friends died serving with Bomber Command
- The Shooting of Rudy Roman – A German corporal is convicted by the War Crimes Tribunal
- Watching The Russkies
- Royal Air Force Station Sleap
- Soldiers Blue
- The 635 Squadron (PFF) Story
- Stay Out Of Those Hangars
- The Strain – Of Operational Flying with Bomber Command
- Lancaster Tire Evokes Memories of War
- The Story of a Tire
- Douglas Tweddle DFC
- The Vulcan Mind Meld
- Frances Walsh – A School Teacher becomes a WW II Hero
- And When Nature Calls
- Without the Bombers, What?
- Howard Witwer’s Story – Surviving a Mid-Air Collision
- Women in the Air Force
- Were The Dambusters Successful – A Dambuster’s Grand-daughter’s study
- Dieppe – The Canadian Battle
- Douglas Feir – Officer in Charge of #19 SFTS Photo Section
- How We Almost Lost Lanc FM159
- Looking for a Lost York from FM159
- Following Baz
- Gordon Jones – Living Aviation History
- Groundcrew
- H2S
- Halifax MZ 516 – Phil Black built a flying model of his Hali
- Hamish Mahaddie – A Horsethief for the Pathfinders
- Chronicle – Happy Landings
- Wing Commander Jack Allan – Nanton’s Golden Hawks C/O
- John Walter Bellamy, AKA “Jack”
- The Jacobs Engine
- An American in the RCAF
- Joe English – Lancaster Pilot
- John Gillespie Magee
- Jonathan Spinks – Airplane Hunter
- Joseph Barber – The 43 Year Old Air Gunner
- Back From Munich
- Chronicle – A Tiger Moth
- The Merlin Story
- A Bomb – for the Museum
- F/O William Reid VC
- The Real Story – About the Bouncing Bomb
- Al Hymers – Sole Survivor
- “Teddy” Blenkinsop – The Montzen Raid
- Memories of My Buddy, Cpl. Pat Brophy
- Douglas Cameron DFM
- Charles P. “Chuck” Lesesne – A Pilot’s Sacrifice
- A Childhood Journey – to a War Cemetery
- The Few – Complete Transcript of Winston Churchill’s Famous Quotation
- The Clayton Knight Committee
- Lancaster Cold War Memories
- Bomber Command – A ‘Blunt Instrument’ of War
- Some Personal Memories of an RCAF Observer/Navigator
- Clarence Simonsen – Mr. Nose Art
- Ken Brown CGM – Dambuster
- Father John Philip Lardie
- Father Lardie – A Padre Over The Ruhr
- Barry Davidson’s P.O.W. Logbook
- Category: Collection
- BCATP Vehicles
- Bomber Command Museum – Needs & Surplus Parts
- Category: Aircraft
- Category: Aircraft Engines
- Category: Media
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- Category: Memorials
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- Category: News
- Category: Newsletters
- Fall 2019 Newsletter
- Newsletter – 2011 Fall and Winter
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- Newsletter – 2007 Fall and Winter
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- Newsletter – 2002 Fall and Winter
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- Newsletter – 1991 Fall and Winter
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- Newsletter – 1989 Fall and Winter
- Newsletter – 1989 Spring and Summer
- Newsletter – 1988 Fall and Winter
- Newsletter – 1988 Spring and Summer
- Newsletter – 1987 Fall and Winter
- Newsletter – 1987 Spring and Summer
- Category: Projects
- Halifax 57 Rescue Chronicles
- Halifax 57 Rescue (Canada) & SCSC – Swedish Coast and Sea Center
- Grand Slam Replica Project
- Halifax 57 Rescue
- Bomber Command Museum of Canada – Restoration of the Calgary Mosquito
- Halifax HR871 Recovery Project
- Museum Expansion Project
- Parts and Tools Requirements for the Restoration of Lancaster Mk.X FM-159
- Category: Avro Anson Restoration
- Category: Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX restoration project
Events
- 3 PM Close for Special Event
- Murder at the Cafe Resistance
- Private Function
- Halifax Event
- Night Run
- Bikes & Bombers
- Nanton Parade Day
- Mosquito Event/Car Show
- Father’s Day/Rocky Mountain Model Club
- 80th Anniversary of the Dams Raid
- “Battle of the Atlantic” Ted Barris Book Launch
- Night Run and - Canceled: Dieppe Presentation by David O’Keefe -
- Bikes and Bombers 2022 with Beer Garden
- Car Show and Engine Runs
- Night Run
- Halifax Event
- 429 Squadron 80th Anniversary
- Nanton Days Parade 10 AM and Engine Run
- Springbank Air Show
- Canada Day
- Mosquito Event
- Model Displays by the The Rocky Mountain Model Club
- 617 Dambuster’s Raid – RAF Benevolent Fund Bicycle Ride
- Season Opening
- Halifax 57 Live Stream Event November 7 2021
- Halifax Recovery and Restoration Cancelled
- Bikes and Bombers 2021
- Nanton Round -Up Days Parade 2021
- Bomber Command Returns
- Cancelled - Halifax 57 Rescue Celebration Day
- Cancelled - Remembering Nanton's Warren Twins + Spitfire Project Update
- CANCELLED - Remembering Squadron Leader Ian Bazalgette VC DFC
- CANCELLED - VE Day 75th Anniversary NIGHT RUN
- Western Canada Regional Model Contest Canceled due to C-19
- CANCELLED - New Year's Murder Mystery in the Museum
- Cancelled - Merlins At Night
- Nanton Days Parade 2020
- Cancelled - Salute to Air Commodore Johnny Faquier
- CANCELLED - Bikes & Bombers + Field of Dreams Charitable Show 'n Shine
- CANCELLED - Joe English & Alex Bahlsen Memorial Fly In
- CANCELLED - Salute to the Calgary Mosquito Society
- CANCELLED - "Art Takes Flight"
- CANCELLED - First Event of 2020 Season
- CANCELLED - J.T. Foster High School Grad 2020
- CANCELLED - Operation Manna's 75th Anniversary
- Mavis Moon (nee Loree)'s Funeral
- Cranbrook Air Cadets – Annual Visit and Clean-Up
- Halifax 57 Rescue Update
- Hangar Hootenanny Dance and Silent Auction
- Nanton-Senantes Twinning Anniversary Night Run
- Nanton Round Up Days Parade
- Ian Bazalgette VC Commemoration - 75th Anniverary
- Bikes and Bombers
- Mosquito Celebration Day
- Spitfire Swing 1940's Costume Party
- Western Canada Regional Model Contest
- Art Takes Flight
- Tiger Moth 1214 & Cessna Crane Debut
- Cessna Crane
- Dambusters 75th Anniversary Commemoration
- Formation of No. 6 Group RCAF - 75th Anniversary Commemoration
- Bomber Command Museum Celebrates 30th Anniversary and 419 Squadron Cold Lake Celebrates Their 75th
- FM159's 70th Birthday Celebration
- The Great Escape 70th Anniversary Commemoration
- Dambusters 70th Anniversary Commemoration
- Meet the Calgary Mosquito
- Museum's 25th Anniversary Salute to 408 Squadron's 70th Anniversary
- Salute to the BCATP Instructors
- Salute to Jack Allan
- Remembering Baz
- Lancs In The Fifties
- American's In The RCAF
- Bomber Command Museum of Canada Twentieth Anniversary Celebration
- Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Dedication
- Lancaster FM159 starboard-inner Merlin Engine Runs
- Sinking of the Battleship Tirpitz - Sixtieth Anniversary
- Salute to the Air Gunners
- Dambusters Sixtieth Anniversary - Salute to Terry Taerum
- Matthew Ferguson Nose Artist Display
- A Brush With Aviation
- Salute To The BCATP
- Salute To The Lancaster - VR-X Connection
- Dedication of Blenheim IV to Barry Davidson
- First of the Ten Thousand - F.Sgt. Albert Stanley Prince
- The Airforce, Past, Present, and Future
- Roy Chadwick
- Salute to Those who Served
- Operation Manna Commemoration
- Salute to the Pathfinders
- Dambusters Fiftieth Anniversary
- Official Opening of the Museum Building
- The Dedication of Lancaster FM159 to S/L Ian Bazalgette VC DFC
- Canadian Warplane Heritage's Lancaster Salutes Nanton