206771 F/L Eric Docra McLean Royal Canadian Air Force 407 Sqd. My Grandfather Eric Mclean flew 18 missions with RCAF 407 'Demon' Squadron. 11 as co/pilot, 7 as pilot. Demon squadron was famous for it's skill at low level bomb deployment on German submarines as defence of allied shipping in the North Sea & English Channel.
My grandfather was involved in a somewhat dishonourable act of striking his senior officer. It seems that after an near accident on a flight mission due to the incompetence of the navigator he reported to his C/O that he would no long fly with the individual. His C/O reprimanded him and called him a coward whereby my grandfather struck the senior officer. Whereby he was stripped of rank and return to Halifax for trial, he missed the closing months of the war. In Canada, he was later excused for the incident and reinstated.
After the war he served with honour as a flight trainer until retiring in the 1960s. My grandfather survived the war, married, had 4 four children, and many grandchildren. Settled in Sutton West, Ontario. Passed away in 1995.
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