RCAF Station Greenwood
General Information
Base / Station: Greenwood
Province: Nova Scotia
Dates of Operation or Period of Information:
- 1940-May 1947
- 17 Feb 1947-Present
Units:
- No 36 (Royal Air Force) Operational Training Unit
- March 1942-June 1944
- No 1 Operational Training Unit – No 1 Advanced Tactical Training Detachment
- No 8 Operational Training Unit
- No 6 Operational Training Unit (?)
- No 6614 Wing
- No 103 Rescue Unit
- No 2 (Maritime) Operational Training Unit
- Maritime Patrol and Evaluation Unit
- 404 Sqn
- 405 Sqn
- 413 Sqn
- 415 Sqn
- 434 Sqn
- 14 Wing
Commanding Officers:
- Group Captain E.M. Reyno at September 1945 – 11 January 1946
- Group Captain A. Lewis, AFC – 11 January 1946 – 8 March 1946
- Wing Commander E. Bould, DFC – 8 March 1946 – 15 July 1946
- Squadron Leader J.J. McCarthy – 15 July 1946 –
Financial Impact:
Date / Reason for closure: Still an active RCAF Base
Site Plan – 1959
(1959) (Source 1 Canadian Air Division)
Click image to download the high resolution PDF.
Location – Google Map
Photo Gallery
Thank you to Mike Anglin for sharing this photo with me (National Defence Image)
Station Magazine
“The Intruder”
Station Magazine
“Horizon”
Station Newsletter
“Wings over Greenwood”
Station Newspaper
“The Aurora”
Ephemera
YouTube
Daily Diary – Links – No 36 (Royal Air Force) Operational Training Unit
1943
March (out of order)
Daily Diary – Links – RCAF Advanced Tactical Training Detachment Greenwood
1944
Daily Diary – Index – No 6 Operational Training Unit
1946
No 6 Operational Training Unit was moved from
Comox, British Columbia, effective 15 January 1946.
January
February
March
Daily Diary – Links – No 8 Operational Training Unit
Daily Diary – Links – RCAF Station Greenwood
1946
Historical Reports – RCAF Station Greenwood
1 June 1949 – 30 November 1949
1 June 1950 – 30 November 1950
1 June 1951 – 30 November 1951
1 June 1952 – 30 November 1952
1 December 1952 – 31 May 1953
1 June 1953 – 30 November 1953
1 December 1953 – 31 May 1954
1 June 1954 – 30 November 1954
Fatalities
This list was compiled from the entries in the Daily diaries of No 36 (Royal Air Force) Operational Training Unit, No 8 Operational Training Unit and other sources. The list likely does not include all fatalities of personnel who died while stationed at RCAF Station Greenwood, and likely includes some errors. Currently this list contains 68 personnel.
21 May 1942
25 June 1942
3 August 1942
8 October 1942
- Sergeant Douglas Wilson Armstrong
- Sergeant Robert Oliver Barrett
- Pilot Officer George William Knowles
- Flight Sergeant Daniel Shackell
- Sergeant Benoit Desmarais
- Flying Officer Jack Campbell McFarlane
- Pilot Officer Henry Raymond Woodman
10 October 1942
- Sergeant Edward Price Badmington
- Sergeant Martin Willard Finn
- Sergeant David Edmond
- Sergeant John Jardine Elder
11 October 1942
11 December 1942
6 March 1943
18 March 1943
27 August 1943
17 September 1943
18 January 1944
- Flight Lieutenant Harold William Church
- Flight Lieutenant Lawrence James O’Connell
- Flying Officer Rex James Walls
- Flying Officer John Dermot Walsh
17 February 1944
18 April 1944
20 April 1944
10 June 1944
8 July 1944
7 August 1944
21 August 1944
22 August 1944
16 September 1944
- Flying Officer John Earl Moon
- Pilot Officer Albert Marie Louis Adhenar De Steenhault De Waerbeek
- Pilot Officer James Arthur Walker
- Pilot Officer Claude Julien Victor Hilaire Groensteen
4 November 1944
11 November 1944
16 November 1944
16 March 1945
2 April 1945
19 April 1945
24 April 1945
5 August 1945
8 August 1945
10 September 1945
21 August 1951
18 September 1951
20 April 1953
23 March 1965
- Squadron Leader John Alan Anderson
- Sergeant Paul Chapman
- Flying Officer Howard John Cocks
- Flying Officer Bruce Wallace George Cromlish
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Edmond Kay Antoine Huet
- Flying Officer Ronald Clarence Johnson
- Flight Sergeant Maurice Jones
- Flying Officer Frederick Arthur Knights
- Flying Officer Charles Alexander Maguire
- Flying Officer John Morphet Peele
- Flight Lieutenant James Ernest Perron
- Dr. Carmen Lambert Piggott, PhD
- Flying Officer James Alexander Richardson
- Flight Lieutenant Carl Murray Sorge
- Flight Lieutenant Joseph Wilfred Tetrault
- Flying Officer Roger Griffith Williams
Amazing site – BZ!
I have a photo of Pilot Officer John Greenwood dated June 1945. Whom I believe ran this station in Nova Scotia. He originally was from Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. He’d frequented a restaurant which my Mother was a young waitress in Halifax. And upon leaving had given her this photo. She’d told me their story many times as I was growing up. There was a huge age difference & the friendship was platonic, Mom considered him ‘an earth angel’ & a father figure. She’d grown up during the depression yrs & had only completed grade 6. He’d observed her being flustered at times when tallying bills in the busy wartime restaurant. To help her gain confidence & improve her math skills, he’d brought her math tables to practice in her spare time & suggested in no time, she’d have them mastered. Which she did.
His photo was kept in a top drawer & I was often told the story. Throughout her life when a challenge was presented, she’d look at his picture & tackle the task at hand with confidence.
I have a photo of Pilot Officer John Greenwood dated June 1945. Whom I believe ran this station in Nova Scotia. He originally was from Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. He’d frequented a restaurant which my Mother was a young waitress in Halifax. And upon leaving had given her this photo. She’d told me their story many times as I was growing up. There was a huge age difference & the friendship was platonic, Mom considered him ‘an earth angel’ & a father figure. She’d grown up during the depression yrs & had only completed grade 6. He’d observed her being flustered at times when tallying bills in the busy wartime restaurant. To help her gain confidence & improve her math skills, he’d brought her math tables to practice in her spare time & suggested in no time, she’d have them mastered. Which she did.
His photo was kept in a top drawer & I was often told the story. Throughout her life when a challenge was presented, she’d look at his picture & tackle the task at hand with confidence.