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Quietus: Last Flight
In 1948, Hugh Burns Hay, a decorated Second World War navigator, returned to university to finish his medical degree. As part of his studies, he requested the files of sixteen RCAF pilots in an effort to identify accident proneness. The crashes occurred between February 1943 and February 1944.
Included are the details of the accidents, the Court of Inquiry's findings, plus updated information from both military sources and family of the pilots and crew members. Second World War veterans and post-war RCAF pilots contribute their thoughts about each accident.
Generously illustrated, Quietus: Last Flight offers a unique insight into WWII on the Home Front in Canada, as well as a glimpse into post-war aviation medicine and present-day aviation accident investigation.
Included are the details of the accidents, the Court of Inquiry's findings, plus updated information from both military sources and family of the pilots and crew members. Second World War veterans and post-war RCAF pilots contribute their thoughts about each accident.
Generously illustrated, Quietus: Last Flight offers a unique insight into WWII on the Home Front in Canada, as well as a glimpse into post-war aviation medicine and present-day aviation accident investigation.
367 pages, Paperback
First published November 8, 2017
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About the author
Anne Gafiuk
4 books7 followersAnne Gafiuk is a former elementary school teacher in Calgary, Alberta who turned to freelance writing. During her research into WWII RCAF pilots for a fictional story, she became very interested in vintage aircraft, the people involved with them and their history, taking her on a new flight of discovery.
She is the author of four books: Wings Over High River, December 2012, She Made Them Family, November 2015, and Quietus: Last Flight, November 2017, published by the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Her fourth book, Will You Be Our Mrs. Muir? was released as an e-book in December 2022. The paperback version will be available in early 2023.
Anne is the creator of www.thetyphoonproject.org, the website dedicated to those who served with Canadian Typhoon Squadrons during the Second World War.
www.wwiicdnwomensproject is another website created by Anne, commemorating the women who died in service to Canada during WWII.
www.ottawamemorialproject.org recognizes the men and women lost during service with the RCAF during WWII who have inaccessible and/or no known graves.
All her websites have companion pages on Facebook.
She has numerous projects on the go, including a book about Fernie, BC during WWII, those who served and returned home, and those whose names are on the town's cenotaph.
Her novel continues to wait while she researches the historical romance genre in more depth.
For more information, please visit www.whatsinastory.ca
Anne enjoys hearing from readers and other writers. Please contact her at anne@whatsinastory.ca
She is the author of four books: Wings Over High River, December 2012, She Made Them Family, November 2015, and Quietus: Last Flight, November 2017, published by the Bomber Command Museum of Canada. Her fourth book, Will You Be Our Mrs. Muir? was released as an e-book in December 2022. The paperback version will be available in early 2023.
Anne is the creator of www.thetyphoonproject.org, the website dedicated to those who served with Canadian Typhoon Squadrons during the Second World War.
www.wwiicdnwomensproject is another website created by Anne, commemorating the women who died in service to Canada during WWII.
www.ottawamemorialproject.org recognizes the men and women lost during service with the RCAF during WWII who have inaccessible and/or no known graves.
All her websites have companion pages on Facebook.
She has numerous projects on the go, including a book about Fernie, BC during WWII, those who served and returned home, and those whose names are on the town's cenotaph.
Her novel continues to wait while she researches the historical romance genre in more depth.
For more information, please visit www.whatsinastory.ca
Anne enjoys hearing from readers and other writers. Please contact her at anne@whatsinastory.ca
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September 15, 2018
An excellent and engaging book that tells the other side of the casualty list. The airmen and passengers who died in not so uncommon accidents on friendly soil, but are no less mourned than those that died in combat. As with all of Anne's books, this is solidly researched and written with compassion for those lost. Anne continues to please as she tells the stories of a time that is passing with each veteran we lose. I look forward to her next book.
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