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Saw a few of the old 80s recruitment pics from DND at a recent gunshow, the one of the Leopard and Kiowa used to plastered all over the place, and got me remembering the old Leopards from the early 80s etc. Here is a 1977 one.

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Saw a few of the old 80s recruitment pics from DND at a recent gunshow, the one of the Leopard and Kiowa used to plastered all over the place, and got me remembering the old Leopards from the early 80s etc. Here is a 1977 one.

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That is one of the rental tanks we used before ours rolled off the assembly line. Same hull but a different slab sided turret vice the German's rounded one shown here. I spent the 80s and 90s crewing them from Gagetown to Germany to Alberta. Great people and fantastic memories!
 
The Short Stirling was the first of three heavy bombers operated by Bomber Command during WW2.

She was a big old thing, appreciably bigger than either the Lanc or the Halifax:

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Not as successful, though, as she operated at around 15,000 ft, right in a particularly nasty sweet spot for flak. Substantial losses. If you ever get a chance to read Murray Pedon's excellent A Thousand Shall Fall, please do.

Lare in the war, the Stirling Mk. V was developed, a transport variant. Handsome thing, to my eye anyhow.

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Not a single example remains. All scrapped, sadly.
 
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They were certainly great times. Being in a Brigade with an operational mission until the Russians quit and wrecked it. I was with the Eighth Canadian Hussars at the North Marg from 88-93. Spent the whole time with A Sqn starting the Gunner of Callsign 11A in 88 and leaving as the Commander of 13B when the base closed. I came back to Canada to the Lord Strathcona's Horse in Calgary.
 
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