Special Announcement!!

Were you aware that 01 Apr 2024 is the 100th Anniversary of the RCAF?

To honour this event we are granting free access to the CAFBA database for the next 100 days, from 26 Feb 2024 to 04 Jun 2024

It is an opportunity to explore the site, update your contact information, find old friends and meet new ones.

To take advantage of this opportunity, simply send us an email to admin@cafba.ca requesting your free 100 day access. On receipt of your email we will forward you a 100 day special login username and password.

This free access will start as early as tomorrow, Mon 26 Feb 2024, but will expire on 04 Jun 2024 which is 100 days from tomorrow.

At the end of the 100 days we will have a draw for a free one year membership access. Only those requesting access during this Anniversary Celebration period are eligible to be entered in the free membership draw to be held in the middle of Jun 2024.

In addition, Current paid up members will have their access extended by 100 days.

Don't wait! Request access now via admin@cafba.ca

PLEASE SIGN THE LETTER IF INTERESTED, ( END OF LETTER)

TO; THE HONOURABLE Bill Blair Minister of Defence

Dear Sir,

I/We were the dependants of those Airforce personal that served during the Cold War in France and elsewhere. Those that served are well documented in museums, libraries and on TV but their families are no where to be seen. There seems to be no RCAF records in print, film, or photo, which captures the stories of the families, Brats, the French, or Belgium friends of Canadians. Face book and you Tube (American) are not where we should be keeping our memories for future generations.

We seem to have been forgotten for the past 100 years of the RCAF and 100 years of film making.

We, the friends of RCAF and Brats are trying to change that narrative.

According to my correspondence with the RCAF Archives, and 'Aviation and Space' Museum, they have no records in print, photo, or film, about the RCAF families. As of this past year, the 'Space and Aviation Museum' had started to collect a few photos of RCAF families which have been supplied to them by myself or others at no cost. They both state that they do not have the budget to buy films or photos from Brats.

We would like to share these stories with our 'Civilian brothers and sisters'. What I am suggesting, is that funds be made available to the Aviation and Space Museum, the RCAF archives and RCAF libraries to purchase what has been created in works of book, film, photos, and written stories, from those Brats who remain.

Time is of some concern.

There is an interest in our lives as much as there is in war stories.

Would the Defence Department be interested in helping make our stories-our legacy, come alive to the Canadian population?

LINK TO SIGN petition on Change. org;

LINK TO SEE BRAT FILMS

My FB page

THANK YOU !

DAVE SIMPSON

MARVILLE BRAT