CAHS Ottawa Chapter on Youtube

The CAHS (Canadian Aviation HistoricalSociety) Ottawa Chapter has been recording its monthly meeting presentations and is pleased to share its YouTube channel with CAHS friends and members. Simply go to www.youtube.com and type CAHS Ottawa Chapter in the search bar When the thumbnails appear, you may choose any video you wish to watch. You can also click subscribe and receive notifications, and you can like the page as well. The link to their channel can also be found on the CAHS Ottawa Chapter page.

The CAHS National encourages all its Chapters to record the monthly presentations and share these on www.youtube.com or through the CAHS National webpage. If a Chapter, museum, or CAHS friend or members already has an aviation-themed YouTube Channel or some videos you would like to share with our readers, please contact Dr Rachel Lea Heide (at treasurer@cahs.ca) with this information.

Happy Viewing!

Listing of CAHS Ottawa Chapter YouTube Video Content:

The Second Dawn of the CP-140 Aurora

Helping To Win The Battle of Britain:
CAN / RAF in RAF Bomber Command

Atlantic Command In The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Consolidated PBY Catalina / Canso

Joey Jacobson’s War – A Jewish-Canadian Airman in WW2

The Rockcliffe Years: RCAF 408 (photographic) Squadron

Alan Arnett McLeod – Forgotten Canadian Hero of World War 1

The Untold Story of Squadron Leader Fowler Gobeil

Trans-Atlantic Crossing: Constellation to Concorde to Narrow Bodies

Awarding Excellence: Canadian Military Honours and Recognition

History of RCAF 430 Squadron

Feeding JAWS (Joint Arctic Weather Stations) Operation Re-Supply

Bagotville: 75 Years of Air Defence

“Drones” and UAV’s – History In The Making

Getting The Air Into An Aircraft Engine – Not So Easy!

The Importance of Newfoundland To Early Aviation Heritage

The Italian Air Force Museum- A Visit By Two Aviation History Enthusiasts From Canada

Jean Le May, RCAF, "My First Twenty Three Years On This Planet"- Memories of WWII

Karen McCrimmon: Leadership – The Choice Is Yours

War Book Club minutes, March 1st, 2020

Items discussed: * indicates available thru RPL

*Betrayal in Berlin: the true story of the Cold War’s most audacious espionage operation/Steve Vogel:

https://tinyurl.com/rplyzt5

*The Book of War Letters: 100 years of private Canadian correspondence:

https://www.reginalibrary.ca/search/108418

*Filing the Ranks: manpower in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918/Richard Holt:

https://tinyurl.com/vzadsrv

*The Firebrand: William Lyon Mackenzie and the rebellion in Upper Canada/William Kilbourn:

https://tinyurl.com/sbu3kfj

*Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu/Bernard B. Fall:

https://tinyurl.com/t2zzrbl

*Hitler: a biography/Peter Longerich:

https://tinyurl.com/vjk2lu3

*The Japanese Empire: grand strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War/S.C.M. Paine:

https://tinyurl.com/v5c76kd

*Mengele: unmasking the “Angel of Death”/David G. Marwell:

https://tinyurl.com/uultrba

*Modern Air Launched Weapons/Martin J. Dougherty:

https://tinyurl.com/wmef7me

*Napoleon: a very short introduction/David A. Bell:

https://tinyurl.com/vm55aot

*Night Witches: a novel of World War Two/Kathryn Lasky:

https://tinyurl.com/qtlz5m5

*The North-west is Our Mother: the story of Louis Riel’s people, the Metis Nation/Jean Teillet:

https://tinyurl.com/ueqqomg

*The River Battles: Canada’s final campaign in World War II Italy/Mark Zuehike:

https://tinyurl.com/w3rnl5v

*Siege of Khe Sanh: the story of the Vietnam War’s largest battle/Robert Pisor:

https://tinyurl.com/snn7qmt

*Triumph at Kapyong: Canada’s pivotal battle in Korea/Dan Bjarnason:

https://tinyurl.com/sfbkluy

*V for Vendetta/Alan Moore & David Lloyd:

https://tinyurl.com/yx6qwpoc

For this month’s Youtube feature, I thought I couldn’t do better than this interview with Dan Bjarnason by Steve Paikin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMFuxdYuywY

Some controversy in the comments.

Next meeting? When sanity returns to the world, but, don’t worry, I will be in touch…in the meantime, stay healthy – and read a war book.

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French War Stories on Film with Dr. Ian Germani

This series looks at films representing how people from France and its colonies experienced war in the twentieth century. Presented by Dr. Ian Germani, Professor of History, U of Regina.

A Very Long Engagement: Thursday, March 5th, 6:30-9 pm

Battle of Algiers: Thursday, May 7th, 6:30-9 pm

Days of Glory: Thursday, April 2nd, 6:30-9 pm

All films shown at the Film Theatre, Regina Public Library; admission is free.