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The Royal Canadian Air Force Journal - Current Issue
Call for Submissions
for The Royal Canadian Air Force Journal
Summer 2012 Issue - Deadline: 30 April 2012
WINTER 2012 - Volume 1, Issue 1
The Royal Canadian Air Force Journal is an official publication of the Chief of the Air Staff and
is published quarterly. It is a forum for discussing concepts, issues and ideas that are both
crucial and central to aerospace power. The
Journal is dedicated to disseminating the ideas
and opinions of not only Air Force personnel, but also those civilians who have an interest in
issues of aerospace power.
Copies are available through:
Anne Pennington, Production Manager, CFAWC
CSN 827-4385
anne.pennington@forces.gc.ca
In this Issue:
- Editor in Chief's Message
Colonel D. W. Joyce, OMM, CD
- Letters to the Editor
Lieutenant-General W. K. (Bill) Carr (Retired)
Colonel Randall Wakelam (Retired)
- Royal Canadian Air Force Restored
Joanna Calder
- Canadian Forces Air Command: Evolution to Founding
Lieutenant-General W. K. (Bill) Carr (Retired)
- The Five-Hour War: The RCAF, Exercise BOOKCHECK, and Nuclear War, 1960-63
Sean M. Maloney, PhD
- RCAF Nursing Sisters (Reprint from the Roundel Vol. 2, No. 3, November 1994)
Major William March, CD, MA
- RCAF Women’s Division (Reprint from the Roundel Vol. 3, No. 3, October 1993)
Major William March, CD, MA
- A Snapshot of Early Cold War RCAF Writing on Canadian Air Power and Doctrine
Dr. Richard Goette
- Air Force Traditions (Reprint from the Roundel Vol. 1, No. 8, April 1994)
Major William March, CD, MA
Points of Interest
Pushing the Envelope
Book Reviews
- Canada, The Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64
By Kevin A. Spooner
Reviewed by Lieutenant-General W. K. (Bill) Carr (Retired)
- Early Canadian Military Aircraft: Acquisitions, Dispositions, Colour Schemes & Markings Volume 1, Aircraft Taken on Strength Through 1920
By John A. Griffin and Anthony Stachiw
Reviewed by Major Andrew B. Godefroy, CD, PhD
- The Black Flight, Memoir of Air Vice-Marshal Raymond Collishaw
By Raymond Collishaw, CB, DSO, DSC, DFC, with Ronald Dodds
Reviewed by Major W. Greg Castagner, CD