Richard (Dick) Brown served as a tail gunner on a Royal Air Force Halifax bomber over Nazi-occupied Europe during Second World War; he died Saturday in his 100th year
Family members, friends and all those who appreciate the role of Canadian veterans in the Second World War are remembering the Sault’s Richard Brown.
“Dick tugged one of the gliders that landed at Ranville," said Phil Miller, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 25 chaplain and local military historian. "They dropped six gliders full of troops around midnight on June 5 and they landed within a couple of hundred metres of their target area. There were astronomical odds of doing that, but they did it."“I visited the D-Day area in Normandy.
Many Canadians, including Brown, were trained for duty through the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada along with British, Australian and New Zealander wartime air force members. As a Halifax bomber tail gunner, Brown and his crew members performed special night operations, dropping arms, ammunition and Allied secret agents into Nazi-occupied France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway.Being a tail gunner was an exceptionally dangerous job.
“I think we should all remember D-Day. I knew some awfully nice guys who didn’t come back from the war."
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