Battle of Britain ceremony a chance to recall ‘big occasions’ in RCAF history
Rosthern-born pilot Ernest Archibald (PeeWee) McNab was flying over southern England with other Canadian pilots on Aug. 15, 1940, when he saw a flight of German bombers below and pounced on them. The 34-year-old squadron leader — the son of Saskatchewan’s then-lieutenant governor, Archibald Peter McNab — latched onto a twin-engine Dornier bomber and put […]