Royal Canadian Naval Air Service
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The Royal Canadian Naval Air Service was a Canadian air arm which was established in 1918 as an anti-submarine force off the Canadian coast. It was established by Order-in-Council on 5 September, 1918, and disbanded on 5 December.[1]
Colonel J. T. Cull, R.A.F., formerly a Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Navy and Wing Commander in the Royal Naval Air Service, was lent to Canada to command the R.C.N.A.S., with the title of Director of the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service.[2][3] N. A. M. Rodger's claim that the R.C.N.A.S. was under the command of Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N., of later Polar fame, is wide of the mark.[4]
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Bibliography
- Kealy, J. D. F.; Russell, E. C. (1967). A History of Canadian Naval Aviation, 1918-1962. Ottawa: The Naval Historical Section.
- Rodger, N. A. M. (1996). Naval Power in the Twentieth Century. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1557506167.
- Tennyson, Brian; Sarty, Roger (2000). Guardian in the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic Wars. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802085458.
