Valiant Effort

Cooperative WWII Air Crew Game coming to PC with VR support. Made in #HamOnt by @Micro_Prose Canada 🇨🇦

[Valiant Effort @Valiant_Effort_]

We are extremely honoured for this opportunity!

[#WWII 8th Air Force @FrancesBekafigo]

Good news for the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum @100bgmus. Thanks Paul.

[Mike Bechthold 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🌻 @mike_bechthold]

It still gives me the shivers to watch this.
Bell was roasted when they released this commercial and used it to sell mobile phones. Later, it was a huge hit when they removed the overt marketing and re-released it for Remembrance Day.
#DieppeRaid #Dieppe

[CHCH News @CHCHNews]

79 years ago more than 6000 allied soldiers stormed the beach at #Dieppe France. Tragically, the attack wasn’t a success and the majority of soldiers from the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry were either killed or taken prisoner. @AdamCHCH reports. #HamOnt

https://t.co/GK0SSn7MBC

[Valiant Effort @Valiant_Effort_]

@play_BTW About time, eh?😝🇨🇦

[Valiant Effort @Valiant_Effort_]

We are proud to finally reveal the fruits of our labour! More details in the coming months...

[MicroProse @micro_prose]

We are proud to announce that we are now officially collaborating with the 100th Bomb Group Foundation on a B-17 Flying Fortress game!

Learn more here: https://t.co/zDXZXpSFdz

#microprose #b17 #mightyeighth #100th

[Project '44 @project4_4]

We are working hard to grow the Project '44 web map and have been collaborating with Pierre Lorang on some new RCAF data. We want to grow the web map to include more air force data. The map shows sorties of 404, 408, 418 and 419 San RCAF. 1/2

[LANCASTER @lancasterdoco]

In a blazing Lancaster on 13 June '44, Canadian Andy Mynarksi tried to rescue trapped tail gunner Pat Brophy Eventually Brophy waved him away. Mynarski then said "Good night sir" & jumped. He died of severe burns.

Incredibly, Brophy lived, helping Mynarski gain a posthumous VC.

[Valiant Effort @Valiant_Effort_]

@danmadmorgan @almurray @James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod @NX611JustJane @CWHM @IntBCC @RAFBBMF Yes, it’s your move @RAFBBMF. I have a feeling they might play the enviable Johnny Johnson card, eh?

[Valiant Effort @Valiant_Effort_]

@danmadmorgan @almurray @James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod @NX611JustJane @CWHM @IntBCC We see your Lancaster in the air, and raise a Lanc flight with 431 Sq navigator vet Bob Middleton, flying over BCATP airfields of Ontario!

[rgpoulussen.bsky.social @rgpoulussen]

#OTD in 1942. Lancaster bomber and crew and essential personnel and material. #WW2 #HISTORY

[David Hills @DavidartHills]

While we’re waiting for flights here’s a 2018 engine run up of Avro Lancaster VR-A from @CWHM.
#avgeek #warbirdwednesday

[Dr Dan Ellin @danmadmorgan]

I love a photo album... Soon to be added to the @IntBCC Digital Archive.

[Canadian War Museum @CanWarMuseum]

Thanks to Flight Lieutenant Harold H. Lindsay, the #WarMuseum has pieces of nose art on display like this. After the #SWW, he saw Canadian bomber airplanes being scrapped in an English junkyard. He arranged for the artwork to be cut out and shipped to Canada. #MuseumFromHome

[Dr Dan Ellin @danmadmorgan]

Navigation calculations and a chart for the operation to Cologne #OnThisDay 20/21 April 1944. @IntBCC https://t.co/oUdwudSaHM

[Dr Dan Ellin @danmadmorgan]

Almost 1000 aircraft bombed the naval base, airfield and town on the islands of Heligoland #OnThisDay 18 April 1945. @IntBCC 'Heligoland was a daylight. It was quite a doddle that one.'

[Valiant Effort @Valiant_Effort_]

Hey, @DavidartHills do you know any Avro Canada experts? Asking for a friend @DonaldNijboer

[Dr Dan Ellin @danmadmorgan]

Happy 100th birthday @AusAirForce. Here’s a few photographs from the @IntBCC Digital Archive. #RAAF100 #AusAirForce

[Dr Dan Ellin @danmadmorgan]

My interview with Reg Harrison is now in the @IntBCC Digital Archive. He flew operations as a pilot with 431 Squadron RCAF and was known as 'Crash'. The interview was recorded over Zoom using a trick I learned from the @WeHaveWaysPod. https://t.co/TKTkWzita1

[Donald Nijboer @DonaldNijboer]

Oh, for 'flaks' sake. Get the real story of how AA flak defences played a key role during the air battles of WWII. https://t.co/AxJAYLHUjk @StackpoleBooks @avaitonhistorian @RAFMUSEUM @CWHM @Hush_Kit @nafmcanada @avspacemuseum

[Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum @CWHM]

#FromTheVault - To most people, a good luck charm consists of a rabbit’s foot or a four leaf clover, but aircrew in the RCAF during World War II took good luck charms to another level. Charms from bits of airplanes, tiny teddy bears and more were carried for a luck on missions.