Robert Alexander Barton OBE DFC & Bar ( 1916-2010) 7 June 2016 marked the 100 anniversary of the birth of R.A. Barton Okanagan Valley’s most decorated Air Force officer in World War Two. Born in Kamloops, his civil engineer father and Scottish mother lived in Penticton. Schooled initially at the Vernon Prep School, young Robert […]
Archives for March 2021
by Jeremy Cook
Clarence King – went to sea at 13 years as a cadet
Remembering Clarence King DSO DSC Legion of Merit (US) 1886-1964 In August 1942, while escorting a 29 ship Convoy TAW-15 in the Caribbean, a lone Canadian Corvette, HMCS Oakville, gained international recognition when it attacked and sunk U-94. The U-boat had been spotted by a US navy plane which released four depth bombs and […]
by Pat Whalley
LADDER LEGS I have had various ailments throughout my life, none of them terribly […]
by Paul Eby
On the Sunny Side
Bungee Jumping You are standing on the edge of a bridge over a canyon. You are hooked up, harnessed and ready to go. You talk yourself into having courage. People do this for the thrill in spite of the risk, you mutter under your breath, but the fear is making your whole body tremble. […]
Down the aisle
Dick Forty 1918-2002
Remembering Richard Frederick John Forty The story of battleship BISMARK is one of the great twentieth century naval epics. Its construction completed in August 1940, BISMARK went to sea in May 1941. Nearly one hundred ships were deployed to operate with, against and because of BISMARK. Crippled by the Royal Navy and the Royal […]