RCAF Station Dartmouth
RCAF Station Shearwater
General Information
Base / Station: Dartmouth (Shearwater)
Province: Nova Scotia
Dates of Operation or Period of Information:
Units:
- 406 Squadron
- 423 Squadron
- 426 Squadron – Unknown – 1947
- 443 Squadron
- 880 Squadron
Aircraft Flown:
Commanding Officers:
| Group Captain Basil Deacon Hobbs, OBE, DSO, DSC & bar, MID. | 27 July 1940 April 1944 |
| Wing Commander Henry Myles Carscallen, DFC, MID. | 7 April 1944 to 10 Nov 1944 |
| Colonel E.I. Patrick | At March 1981 |
Financial Impact:
Date / Reason for closure: Still an active RCAF Base, Runways have been decommissioned and is now only an active heliport.
Training Area Map – Dartmouth
Location – Google Map
Station Magazine
“Thumbs Up”
Station Magazine
“The Warrior”
Daily Diary – Index – RCAF Station Dartmouth
For More information – External Links
- Wikipedia
- MilitaryBruce.com – Canadian Military History by Bruce Forsyth
Dear Sir, Madam,
I am a Dutch volunteer with the Foundation Fields of Honor https://fieldsofhonorfoundation.com/ and am trying to find a picture of Harold Higson Spicer who was employed as an aero-engineering mechanic at RCAF Station Dartmouth, Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia In the early stages of WW2.
After his RCAF service he returned to the USA (where he was born on 5th August 1917) and enlisted in the USAAF in 1944.
He was KIA in March 1945 as a P-47 pilot with the 371st Fighter Squadron.
See https://www.fieldsofhonor-database.com/index.php/en/american-war-cemetery-luxembourg-s/87910-spicer-harold-h-lux-h-14-67
I hope that you will be able to trace his photograph in your records.
Such a find would enable us to add his photograph to our database to honor his sacrifice.
I look forward to hear from you!
Best regards from the Netherlands,
Arie-Jan van Hees
[email protected]
Station commander from 7 April 1944 to 10 Nov 1944 was Wing Commander Henry Myles Carscallen, DFC, MID.
Station commander from 27 July 1940 April 1944 was Group Captain Basil Deacon Hobbs, OBE, DSO, DSC & bar, MID.