D – Day

One of the air fleets of RCAF Bomber Command; Above are several four-engine Halifax’s of the Bluenose and Iroquois Squadron in Bomber Group 6. They are waiting in the long evening of dusk for darkness. When night falls the a/c will thunder down the runways one after another, on their way to bomb targets in Nazi occupied Europe. Mr. John "Jack" W. Yuill is in foreground, an aero engine mechanic.

6 June 1944 - Courtesy CFJIC - PL 30123