426 Squadron - Korean Airlift

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

By the way,Jimmy(Jamie as mom called him-was born in Kingston,Ontario.My mom and a Mrs Cherry used to go to the park together,pushing little Jim amd little DON CHERRY in their prams) Shipton,now retired in Nepean near Ottawa is now deaf in one ear from the merlins om the North Star,flew for over 37 years with the RCAF.He was posted to Winnipeg 433 Squadron as a navigational instructor,then to the US West Coast as an electronic warfare navigator.Afterward he flew the Yukon,Comet and Cosmopolitan Convair aircraft.Just last year he finally received his UN Medal for service in Egypt,Cyprus,The Golan Heights,Africa.He also flew Dakotas and North Stars into Alert,did rescue and topographiacal surveys in the Arctuc,and was the navigator on the North Star that found and named Air Force Island,never before on a map.Some of you air force guys probably flew with him at one time or another.Be that as it may,I'm going to revert back and forward through his career.
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