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Billy Bishop, Canada’s first Air Force Victoria Cross winner

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Billy Bishop, Canada’s first Air Force Victoria Cross winner Government of Canada On June 2, 1917, Captain William Avery “Billy” Bishop took off from Filescamp Farm, his home base with No. 60 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, near Arras in northern France, on a daring early morning mission. It was a mission planned “after much thought”, according to his own words in Winged Warfare, first published in 1918. READ MORE

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