For those of you who may have been at the Air Force
Officers Association meeting at Pat Bay last Thursday,
many of you probably admired the World War II, P40
Kittyvhawk that George Maude and his family have spent so
many hours on, restoring this aircraft to its original state.
Though it is not completely finished, it is beautiful — and
possibly brought back many nostalgic memories to those
present, many of whom flew these aircraft from Pat Bay
during the war years.

However, this particular aircraft also has some memories
for this writer, for its discovery and subsequent series of
coincidences has begun to unravel a mystery that has laid

Reg Davis

dormant for 32 years, and if the editor will kindly spare me
the space, and the erasing of his red pencil, I would like to
relate it to those of you who may be interested.

On May 3lst, 1944 — at 1:55 p.m., on a dirt strip just
outside San Angelo, Italy — a 21 year old pilot climbed
into one of these Kittyhawks, and with the rest of his
comrades, took off on yet another ‘stafing mission. It was
the young man’s 24th sortie in about as many days. His
squadron — 112th, R.A.F. was (contrary to American
claims of having invented it later in the war) the originator
of the ‘Shark’ insigna, and was named as such. Readers
may recall the ferocious sharks mouth, eyes and teeth,
painted on the Kittyhawks cowling, and which apparently
was the insigna later adopted by the famous ‘Flying
Tigers’.

The young pilot had previously walked away unscathed
from two crash landings and one belly landing after his
plane had been hit. However, his luck ran out this day, for
over Lake Di Canterno the flight ran into heavy and very
accurate anti-aircraft fire. They took evasive action, and
the squadron leader ordered the aircraft to rendezvous
south of the village of Frosinone. But the pilot in question
did not show up, and a search by the rest failed to find any
trace of him or his aircraft.

This kind of event no doubt happened many times
during those terrible war years — but this particular in-
cident had some unusual and still unexplained features and
touches of irony. On returning to base, an armed ground
patrol was sent out to serch for the downed flyer — it never
returned. Although the aircraft apparently came down in
Allied-held territory — and although later, several specially
organized search parties were dispatched over the following
months — it was not until four years later — three years
after the war. had been over — was the aircraft and its
pilot’s remains discovered. He had apparently been buried
by the local inhabitants.

The pilot had the dubious distinction of being the only
one missing on that day in the whole of the Allied
operations. And with a strange quirk of irony, unlike the
rest of the squadron’s registration numbers that all ended

- with a letter of the alphabet, his bore instead a question
mark, almost as if querying — why?

The fact that the incident occured over Allied held
territory and the four years delay in finding the aircraft,
has for long led me to suspect that it-was shot down by
Allied guns and had been hushed up for that reason, as had
many similar occurances during those hectic days of
fighting. .

About the last thing anybody around here needs is a few
more words on the Olympics. ,
So...

CBC-TV has given us 11 hours of coverage each day
during the games and this was far more poop than anybody
really wanted. Those of us who could not take this
avalanche of yelling enthusiasm merely had to push the off-
button, but spare a thought for those poor announcers in

Bill WeCusker

the fancy CBC jackets bought by us. (The concept of
mercy, which most people cherish, forbids more than a
passing reference to that horrible CBC logo splotched on
the shirts we purchased for other CBC employees who
cume within camera range from time to time.)

But the announcers — if it was an exhausing schedule for
us, think what it must have been for them. None of them
could present a fresh line of patter as, day after day, Nadia
Comencci soared to ever-dizzier heights in les gymnastiques
and all of them fell victim to that bubonic plague of teevee,
over-exposure,

All except Ernie Afaganis whose no-nonsense approach
to sports broadcasting remains an oasis ina desert pocked
with yammerers. Being Geeek, Ernie probably has in his
genes a legacy from the day when the cradle of civilization
produced the first Olympics — without having to take into
account dogfood commercials and the sale of cereal grains
to mainland China,

The others, well, even that nice Lloyd Robertson begins
to pall when forced upon us for long periods of time.

At that, the CBC boys were a couple of notches ahead of
what Jim Kearney has called “the ‘used-car-salesmen”
inflicted upon us by the ABC television network. Their too-
slick performance had one of my acquaintances running
for his Mothersill’s Seasick Remedy,

One hates to keep harping on the expense angle of the
Olympics but it is clear from the amount of coverage given
the Montreal games by the CBC there's going to be little
left in the corporation’s kitty to pay for other program.
ming of any quality within the foreseeable future, Certainly
there will be little to pay for West Coast productions and
we must resign ourselves to a continuing role for Toronto

‘as the culture capital of Canada,

The CBC will, however, keep on accepting tax money
from ous foreigners to keep the Toronto winderkinds
wunderbar,

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Canadians from coast to coast received a
package recently, There yas a white wooden pencil
with an eraser on it and a lengthy questionnaire
form,

The government wanted to know some strange
things abont us all, For instance: it wanted us to
use the pencil to say how we got to our sleeping
quarters, Did we, for instance, go through
someone else’s living quarters to do so?

There will be a burst of work for another battery
of civil servants shifting and shovelling all this
paper through the computer equipment at Ottawa
fo process information which is both petty and

Though having known George Maude and his aircraft
for all these past years, it was just by coincidence, while
looking through one of his many books on the Kittyhawk, |
discovered actual photographs and the name of the pilot of
this one incident. Subsequent contact with the pilot’s
relatives revealed they had no knowledge of such records,
and as a result, letters of inquiry have been sent to the Air
Ministry in London for more details, as are advertisments
to be inserted in an English newspaper, with the hope some
past member of the squadron may see it and be able to shed
some light on they mystery.

While at the Air Force Officers mecting last Thursday, I
discovered by chance that ‘Speed’ Norman, who a Battle of
Britain pilot | have known for years had, for a few short
days, been in command of the 112th R.A.F. squadron

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GOOD TIMES AHEAD

What is one to say about the B.C. Lions?

‘‘The less said the better’? I hear someone mutter and a
cold appraisal of the team’s initial fracas with the lads from
Saskatchewan indicates there is indeed merit in this
suggestion.

The Lions will tangle with that other worst team in
Canadian football the Hamilton Pussycats by the time this
essay appears and, should the B.C. team win, the worth of
a victory over that defanged aggregation will at best be
moot.

So let us concentrate our thoughts on the display the
home team provided against Lancaster & Co.

Lancaster, it should be noted, has the occasional game
when he is something less than spectacular and the opener
against our boys was one of them. Instead of doing to the
Lions as he usually does unto others, Brother Ronald
restricted himself to a mere workmanlike job and it is a
mark of the B.C, boys’ ineptness that halftime found them
looking at the dreadful end of a 32-0 score,

For the balance of this engagement the stubblejumpers
from Sask. contented themselves with jumping about on
the Empire Stadium stubble and — just to prove the quality
of merey is not strained in the giving (in the wheat
province, at least) allowed their hosts to ring up some cight
points on the scoreboard,

The final reckoning: Sly Ronny and His Country
Bumpkins 35, The British Columbia Lions 8,

Well, football fans, some of you may think all is lost but
1 — ever The Merry Optimist — have just coined a shiny
new phrase which says that after this debacle, our team has
nowhere to go but up.

And not up in smoke as some weisenheimers will say,

Our boys will win a few games this season, although not
enough to drape themselves with a cloak of respectability
And when the work’s all done this Fall we will see the team
taken over by same capitalist, enamoured of pigskin, who
can lay hand to gelt sufficient to provide us with players a
cut above the journeymen we are now forced to suffer, An
educated guess is that this capitalist will have, in’ his
portfolio, great swatches of common stock in banks,
breweries and distilleries since that is the way of things
these days (c.g. the new Toronto bigleague baseball team
and the Expos.)

There are good times ahead, football fans.

“ ”

*

The bureaucratic menagerie in Ottawa continues to
explode in all directions as various cabinet ministers come
up with “programs” they claim we want,

The civil servants are highly-paid by anybody's stan-
dards but they have it over the rest of us all ways to Sunday

‘Free’ pencils

prying in its significance,

Someone with pencils to sell — presumably not
an enemy of the Liberal Government — has had a
windfall financially from this pencil thing. Perhaps
the government has a friend in the tin’ cup
manufacturing business, Hso, it could buy about a
million or two of tin cups to distribute so that
enterprising but hard-up citizens, taxed out of
house and home, would be able to gather up
unused census pencils and carry on a self-employed
activity converting the pencils into useful cash,

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whilst in Sicily; but due to his short time there, could not
recall this particular incidnet.

It was this discovery that made me wonder if by some
small chance of fate, there may be other persons in this
area, who may have had contact with that particular
squadron at that time. It’s a slim chance after all these
years, but one never knows. After 32 years, and from more
than six thousand miles away, some pieces of the puzzle are
beginning to fall into place — I’m hoping someone out
there may have the final piece.

Any information would be greatly appreciated, as |
intend digging into this until 1 unearth something.

For as I said previously, that particular aircraft of
George Maude’s holds a memory for me also. That young
flier — Sergeant Pilot George Fredrick Davis - was my
brother.

in the matter of fat pensions tied to the cost of living.

We now live in a country where some people are more
equal than others and it is typical of the times that these
favoured ones produce absolutely nothing.

* * *

A mis-understanding on our part led to a recent Review
item in which it was stated that Municipal Affairs Minister
Hugh Curtis did not have the power to ‘‘impose’’ a set-
tlement of the water question on Saanich Peninsula.

He does indeed have this power and he’s going to
exercise it shortly, after hearing the views of various in-
terested local bodies on the question of Peninsula water
supply.

Curtis told me that where he lacks power is in the field
of amalgamating the three local municipalities — a
question that raises its head from time to time only to be
flattened by those who think things are just jake as they
are,

Municipal amalgamation, Curtis said, could come about
only by a vote in the three areas concerned.

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