Squadron Leader Small was one of five airmen who perished when their Consolidated 28-5MC Canso (#9737) aircraft crashed shortly after taking flight from Gander in the Dominion of Newfoundland. The Canso was on an outward bound anti-submarine operation over the Atlantic when it experienced severe air turbulence which caused it to crash 3 miles south of Gander Lake.
The Canadian airmen who lost their lives in this aircraft accident were-
Pilot Officer Donald Leslie HUDSON,
Pilot Officer John Thomas MANGAN,
Squadron Leader Norville Everett SMALL,
Flying Officer Aubrey Maxwell TINGLE and
Sergeant Harold Ernest WHITE.
Military Service:-
Rank: Squadron Leader
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: C/1379
Age: 34
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division #5 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron [MOTTO: Volando Vincimus ('By Flying We Conquer')]
Citation: Air Force Cross (AFC)
Honours/Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
He enlisted in the RCAF on 23 May 1928 in Borden, Ontario, Canada. [The Royal Canadian Air Force had been founded four years earlier on 1 April 1924, and its first commander was the First World War's Flying Ace, Canadian Wing Commander William ('Billy') George BARKER, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Two Bars.
Before being transferred to Newfoundland, S/L Small had been the Officer Commanding of RCAF 113 Squadron based at RCAF Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, taking command on 26 June 1942; 113 squadron flew on anti-submarine operations along the Atlantic Coast under 'Eastern Air Command, flying Lockheed Hudson Mark III aircraft.
S/L Small was one of the RCAF's most respected students of maritime air power, and under his 1942 leadership 113 Squadron became the leading anti-submarine unit' distinguishing itself by using improved methods of communication and by placing 113's crew and aircraft on constant 'alert': this allowed quick response to any reported Atlantic U-boat threat to Canadian waters.
Norville Small was the son of Adolph and Minnie Small of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Doris Ivy (née Rawson) Small of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Squadron Leader Norville Everett Small is commemorated on Page 214 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The Canadian airmen who lost their lives in this aircraft accident were-
Pilot Officer Donald Leslie HUDSON,
Pilot Officer John Thomas MANGAN,
Squadron Leader Norville Everett SMALL,
Flying Officer Aubrey Maxwell TINGLE and
Sergeant Harold Ernest WHITE.
Military Service:-
Rank: Squadron Leader
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: C/1379
Age: 34
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division #5 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron [MOTTO: Volando Vincimus ('By Flying We Conquer')]
Citation: Air Force Cross (AFC)
Honours/Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
He enlisted in the RCAF on 23 May 1928 in Borden, Ontario, Canada. [The Royal Canadian Air Force had been founded four years earlier on 1 April 1924, and its first commander was the First World War's Flying Ace, Canadian Wing Commander William ('Billy') George BARKER, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Two Bars.
Before being transferred to Newfoundland, S/L Small had been the Officer Commanding of RCAF 113 Squadron based at RCAF Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, taking command on 26 June 1942; 113 squadron flew on anti-submarine operations along the Atlantic Coast under 'Eastern Air Command, flying Lockheed Hudson Mark III aircraft.
S/L Small was one of the RCAF's most respected students of maritime air power, and under his 1942 leadership 113 Squadron became the leading anti-submarine unit' distinguishing itself by using improved methods of communication and by placing 113's crew and aircraft on constant 'alert': this allowed quick response to any reported Atlantic U-boat threat to Canadian waters.
Norville Small was the son of Adolph and Minnie Small of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Doris Ivy (née Rawson) Small of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Squadron Leader Norville Everett Small is commemorated on Page 214 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Squadron Leader Small was one of five airmen who perished when their Consolidated 28-5MC Canso (#9737) aircraft crashed shortly after taking flight from Gander in the Dominion of Newfoundland. The Canso was on an outward bound anti-submarine operation over the Atlantic when it experienced severe air turbulence which caused it to crash 3 miles south of Gander Lake.
The Canadian airmen who lost their lives in this aircraft accident were-
Pilot Officer Donald Leslie HUDSON,
Pilot Officer John Thomas MANGAN,
Squadron Leader Norville Everett SMALL,
Flying Officer Aubrey Maxwell TINGLE and
Sergeant Harold Ernest WHITE.
Military Service:-
Rank: Squadron Leader
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: C/1379
Age: 34
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division #5 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron [MOTTO: Volando Vincimus ('By Flying We Conquer')]
Citation: Air Force Cross (AFC)
Honours/Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
He enlisted in the RCAF on 23 May 1928 in Borden, Ontario, Canada. [The Royal Canadian Air Force had been founded four years earlier on 1 April 1924, and its first commander was the First World War's Flying Ace, Canadian Wing Commander William ('Billy') George BARKER, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Two Bars.
Before being transferred to Newfoundland, S/L Small had been the Officer Commanding of RCAF 113 Squadron based at RCAF Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, taking command on 26 June 1942; 113 squadron flew on anti-submarine operations along the Atlantic Coast under 'Eastern Air Command, flying Lockheed Hudson Mark III aircraft.
S/L Small was one of the RCAF's most respected students of maritime air power, and under his 1942 leadership 113 Squadron became the leading anti-submarine unit' distinguishing itself by using improved methods of communication and by placing 113's crew and aircraft on constant 'alert': this allowed quick response to any reported Atlantic U-boat threat to Canadian waters.
Norville Small was the son of Adolph and Minnie Small of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Doris Ivy (née Rawson) Small of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Squadron Leader Norville Everett Small is commemorated on Page 214 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
The Canadian airmen who lost their lives in this aircraft accident were-
Pilot Officer Donald Leslie HUDSON,
Pilot Officer John Thomas MANGAN,
Squadron Leader Norville Everett SMALL,
Flying Officer Aubrey Maxwell TINGLE and
Sergeant Harold Ernest WHITE.
Military Service:-
Rank: Squadron Leader
Trade: Pilot
Service Number: C/1379
Age: 34
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division #5 Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron [MOTTO: Volando Vincimus ('By Flying We Conquer')]
Citation: Air Force Cross (AFC)
Honours/Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
He enlisted in the RCAF on 23 May 1928 in Borden, Ontario, Canada. [The Royal Canadian Air Force had been founded four years earlier on 1 April 1924, and its first commander was the First World War's Flying Ace, Canadian Wing Commander William ('Billy') George BARKER, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Two Bars.
Before being transferred to Newfoundland, S/L Small had been the Officer Commanding of RCAF 113 Squadron based at RCAF Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, taking command on 26 June 1942; 113 squadron flew on anti-submarine operations along the Atlantic Coast under 'Eastern Air Command, flying Lockheed Hudson Mark III aircraft.
S/L Small was one of the RCAF's most respected students of maritime air power, and under his 1942 leadership 113 Squadron became the leading anti-submarine unit' distinguishing itself by using improved methods of communication and by placing 113's crew and aircraft on constant 'alert': this allowed quick response to any reported Atlantic U-boat threat to Canadian waters.
Norville Small was the son of Adolph and Minnie Small of Toronto, Ontario; husband of Doris Ivy (née Rawson) Small of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Squadron Leader Norville Everett Small is commemorated on Page 214 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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