No. 438 Squadron RCAF

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438 City of Montreal Squadron
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The 438 City of Montreal Squadron is an air force unit of Canadian Forces based at CFB St. Hubert, Quebec. Equipped with 9 CH-146 Griffon helicopters, it provides transportation and support to army units.

The motto 'Going Down' is the last instruction given by the formation leader of the Typhoon bomber before they dive bomb.

1 WWII Years
- 1.1 Aircraft
- 1.2 Members
  - 1.2.1 Roy Burden, RCAF, Pilot
2 Later years
- 2.1 Aircraft
3 External links

[edit] WWII Years

The 438 Squadron, part of the 143 Wing, embarked for Europe on November 2nd 1943.

[edit] Aircraft

P-40_Kittyhawk (December 1941 - October 1943)
Hawker Hurricane IV (November 1943 - May 1944)
Hawker Typhoon IB (January 1944 - August 1945)

[edit] Members

[edit] Roy Burden, RCAF, Pilot

November 15, 1919, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada - January 28. 2005, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada.

Roy became a postal worker in North Vancouver after the war, and retired after working there for 35 years. Roy is one of the six pilots who signed Robert Bailey's painting 'Typhoon Fury' which featured Harry Hardy's plane, the 'Pulverizer II'. He was featured as one of the Typhoon pilots in Wayne Ralph's book, Aces, Warriors, and Wingmen, about the Canadian airmen during World War II. Roy held nothing but contempt for Holocaust deniers after having photographed the mass graves in Bergen Belsen. He saw the faded signs with the skull and crossbones and German writing, warning people of the typhus danger. "The people around there said they didn't know anything, but those signs had to have been up there for years", he said.