David Bashow
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David L. Bashow (born 19461) is a Canadian author. Bashow served 36 years in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel.
David L. Bashow (born 1946) is a Canadian author. Bashow served 36 years in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel.
Career
Bashow was born in Calgary, Alberta. He moved to Fredericton with his family in 1958, and attended high school and then the University of New Brunswick (UNB). He joined the Canadian Air Force after graduating from UNB, serving as a fighter pilot; he has written books on air-force related topics, and has taught both in the United States and in Canada. Bashow, who lives in Canada with his wife Heather, is an associate professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada, and editor of Canadian Military Journal, a bilingual, peer-reviewed academic journal. Bashow's book Knights of the Air, about Canadian fighter pilots in the First World War, revisited an aspect of history covered as heroic and chivalrous by earlier writers, including Norman Harris in Knights of the Air (1958), and Arch Whitehouse's The Years of the Sky Kings (1959). Bashow sees the air war as "a dirty piece of business," in which the flying aces "were a rather ruthless bunch, who often travelled alone, looked for the weak or wounded, snuck up behind them and shot them in the back." He weighs in on longstanding disputes, arguing that Billy Bishop did carry out a solo attack on a German aerodrome at dawn and that Roy Brown was not the pilot who shot down the "Red Baron," Manfred von Richthofen. Bashow's book All the Fine Young Eagles, about the Canadian fighter pilots in the Second World War. Bashow had a Starfighter poster on his wall as a teenager, and flew them as a peacetime Air force pilot.
Works
Starfighter: A Loving Retrospective of the CF-104 Era in Canadian Fighter Aviation, 1961–1986. Fortress Publications Inc., 1990. All the Fine Young Eagles (Stoddart Publishing, 1996). An updated and expanded second edition was published in 20161. Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the World War. L. Bashow (McArthur & Company Publishing; 2000) None But The Brave (Canadian Defense Academy Press) No Prouder Place: Canadians and the Bomber Command Experience 1939–1945 (Vanwell Publishing, 2005)
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