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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command abstract "Western Air Command was the part of the Royal Canadian Air Force's Home War Establishment responsible for air operations on the Pacific coast of Canada during the Second World War. When Canada declared war against Germany in September 1939 the command consisted of only five squadrons. Four of them equipped with obsolete aircraft including a bomber squadron with aircraft from the Great War and there were no fighter aircraft at all for its only fighter squadron (113 Fighter Squadron was thus disbanded). With the Japanese threat after Pearl Harbor it grew rapidly and played a critical role in fighter and anti-submarine operations in Canadian and American waters during the Aleutian Islands Campaign. It was there that Squadron Leader K.A. Boomer of No. 111 Squadron shot down a Rufe fighter, the RCAF's only kill in the Pacific Theatre. On 7 July 1942 a Bristol Bolingbroke pressed home an attack on the Japanese Submarine Ro 32 the pilot F/Sgt. P.M.G. Thomas of No. 115 Squadron RCAF then led American Destroyers to sink the damaged submarine. By January 1943 Western Air Command had expanded to include many bomber, fighter and operational units under its control. By the end of the war the command would involve some twenty squadrons when the last units to join were added in 1943. These were the 163 Army Cooperation Squadron in March flying Bristol Bolingbrokes and Hawker Hurricanes, in May the 160 Bomber-Reconnaissance Squadron was added flying Cansos from Sea Island BC (before moving to Yarmouth NS in July) and the 166 Communication Squadron formed in September flying various types. In addition to the new squadrons, new aircraft types came on line replacing the command's remaining Supermarine Stranraers and Blackburn Sharks with Canso's and the Bolingbrokes and Beauforts with the Lockheed Ventura. Countless training missions and operational patrols bolstered the air activity over the coastal areas but there was not much action until RCAF Western Command was on the look out for General Kusaba's Fire Balloons that the Japanese called the Fūsen Bakudan Campaign. In February and March 1945, P-40 fighter pilots from 133 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force operating out of RCAF Patricia Bay (Victoria, British Columbia), intercepted and destroyed two fire balloons, On 21 February, Pilot Officer E. E. Maxwell While shot down a balloon, which landed on Sumas Mountain, in Washington State. On 10 March, Pilot Officer J. O. Patten destroyed a balloon near Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Patrol activity was joined by the Operational Training Schools (OTS) operated by Number 4 Training Command of the BCATP. They were the No. 3 OTS flying the Canso and Catalina and No. 32 OTS with Ansons, Beauforts and Swordfish at Patricia Bay. In April, 1944 the No. 5 OTS Heavy Conversion unit stood up at Boundary Bay when 16 B-24 Liberators arrived fresh from American factories. By the end of September 1944 RCAF 5 O.T.U. had grown to 87 aircraft including 38 B-24 Liberators, 35 B-25 Mitchells, 5 Bolingbrokes, 8 P-40 Kittyhawks and only 1 Norseman. With the end of the war in Europe these aircraft were joined by a number of Victory Aircraft Lancaster X bombers which were to be used to train the British Commonwealth's Very Long Range Bomber Tiger Force that would soon be sent to bomb the Japanese mainland from Okinawa. With the unconditional surrender of Japan the RCAF's Tiger Force bomber squadrons were disbanded before they flew overseas and the total draw down of the Western Air Command was suddenly undertaken. Within several months almost all the flying squadrons would be completely stood down.".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command activeYearsEndYear "1947".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command activeYearsStartYear "1938".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command battle Aleutian_Islands_Campaign.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command battle American_Theater_(World_War_II).
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command battle Fire_balloon.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command battle World_War_II.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command country Canada.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command militaryBranch Royal_Canadian_Air_Force.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command thumbnail Royal_Canadian_Air_Force_Ensign_(1941-1968).svg?width=300.
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageRevisionID "699331100".
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLink American_Theater_(World_War_II).
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLink Blackburn_Shark.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLink Boundary_Bay_Airport.
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLink Tiger_Force_(air).
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLink File:Royal_Canadian_Air_Force_Ensign_(1941-1968).svg.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLinkText "RCAF Western Air Command".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wikiPageWikiLinkText "Western Air Command".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command battles "Second World War * Pacific Coast * Aleutian Islands Campaign * Fūsen Bakudan Campaign".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command branch "20".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command dates "--03-15".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command identificationSymbol2Label "Squadron Codes".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command identificationSymbolLabel "Squadron Badge heraldry".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command unitName "Western Air Command".
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_established_in_1938.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command subject Category:Royal_Canadian_Air_Force.
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command type Agent.
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command type Q176799.
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command comment "Western Air Command was the part of the Royal Canadian Air Force's Home War Establishment responsible for air operations on the Pacific coast of Canada during the Second World War. When Canada declared war against Germany in September 1939 the command consisted of only five squadrons.".
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command label "RCAF Western Air Command".
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- RCAF_Western_Air_Command sameAs Q7276043.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command wasDerivedFrom RCAF_Western_Air_Command?oldid=699331100.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command depiction Royal_Canadian_Air_Force_Ensign_(1941-1968).svg.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command isPrimaryTopicOf RCAF_Western_Air_Command.
- RCAF_Western_Air_Command name "Western Air Command".