Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Royal Canadian Air Force
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- initialism Canada, military, aviation Royal Canadian Air Force, predecessor of the Canadian Forces Air Command (
CF AIRCOM)
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Examples
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And this June 6, I'll be able to re-tell some of that remarkable history because people such as RCAF navigator Bob Dale, RCN stoker Ray Mecoy, Canadian paratrooper Mark Lockyer, Canadian infantrymen Fred Barnard and Canadian army photographer Bill Grant chose to serve their country in what they believed was a noble cause.
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Weirdness | Did the mysterious hijacker known as Dan Cooper -- called "D.B. Cooper" by the news media -- take his name from a French-Canadian comic series about the adventures of an RCAF test pilot?
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They petitioned on the grounds of unit cohesion and got to stay as RAF/RCAF pilots and crew and were specially designated as “Eagle” Squadrons.
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And then in 1939/40 there were some Americans (pilots) who went north to Canada where the Canadians pretended they were Canadians so they could join the RCAF and then fly with the RAF – despite the fact that technically they were betraying the US by fighting in a foreign uniform.
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He was shot down over France and is commemorated as the first RCAF flier killed in action.
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He was shot down over France and is commemorated as the first RCAF flier killed in action.
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He is considered the first flyer killed in the RCAF.
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He is considered the first flyer killed in the RCAF.
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He was lost in action on April 1, 1918, the day that the RCAF came into being.
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He was lost in action on April 1, 1918, the day that the RCAF came into being.
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