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Evan Campbell (Cam) Devine, Uncle Bill Watson’s Friend
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From my set entitled "Uncle Bill Watson"
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Watson reunion print in which Cam Devine appears
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Campbell (Cam) Devine was my Uncle Bill Watson's many appropriate crony during early propagandize years in Grand Valley, Ontario. Cam was killed upon Aug 12, 1944, when the Flying Boat he was piloting crashed in Ireland. we am together with the notice of his genocide from the Grand Valley Star as good as Vidette, as good as the minute comment of the pile-up as remembered by Chuck Singer, the single of Cam's moody crew.
From The Grand Valley Star as good as Vidette, August, 1944
Another Grand Valley Boy Passes Overseas
News of the genocide of an additional Grand Valley kid abroad was perceived in locale the latter partial of final week. He was Flight Lieut Campbell Devine, elder son of Dr. as good as Mrs. E. W. Devine of Orillia prior to of Grand Valley. Campbell was innate in Grand Valley as good as altered with his relatives to Orillia the small years ago. His genocide occurred in Ireland upon Aug.12 as good as burial took place in Ireland. He was the consort as good as companion of the late P.O. Bill Watson of Grand Valley. Brief references to his genocide were done in the pulpits of Knox Presbyterian Church upon Sunday sunrise as good as during the commemorative operate for the late P.O. Watson in Trinity United Church upon Sunday afternoon. Besides his relatives as good as the single brother, Donald, the defunct leaves the widow as good as the single child, all of Orillia. To the bereaved parents, brother, widow as good as kid the magnetism of this village is lengthened
Full details per his genocide had not been perceived during the time of starting to press.
Taken from THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC Highlights from 422 R.C.A.F. Squadron, 1942 – 1945
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August 12, 1944 saw the pile-up of Sunderland T of 422, in Donegal County, Ireland, customarily north of Belleek, Northern Ireland, prior to prolonged after receiving moody for an Atlantic patrol. The heavily installed aircraft had suffered an engine glow as good as detriment of propeller as good as the pile-up alighting was attempted upon the comparatively prosaic area. The skipper, F/L Cam Devine as good as dual organisation members died in the crash. The residue of the organisation perceived critical injuries as good as were primarily treated with colour in the Irish sanatorium in Ballyshannon, Donegal County, as good as after altered to the troops sanatorium in Necarne Castle nearby Irvinestown, Northern Ireland or to hospitals in England.
Taken from the The Impartial Reporter: For Fermanagh, Tyrone as good as Border Counties of the Republic of Ireland:
Issue: 15-08-2002
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A rip ran down the impertinence of Chuck Singer as he stood upon the windswept bogland of Cashelard, reception prolonged overdue approval for an movement of good aplomb undertaken 58 years ago to the day.
It was the noble moment, the wise closure to the conspicuous tale, overdue many not customarily to Chuck, whose unselfish actions as the nineteen year elderly First Gunner upon the stricken Sunderland drifting vessel in 1944 saved the hold up of the comrade, though additionally to his son Bob (who rightly forked out which reports of his father’s genocide in the Squadron annals were severely exaggerated), as good as internal historians Joe O’Loughlin as good as Breege McCusker.
A vast throng collected upon Monday during the expect hour during the site where Sunderland NJ175 crashed prior to prolonged after receiving off from the bottom during Castle Archdale. They collected to compensate reverence to Sergeant Chuck Singer, though additionally to the 3 airmen who did not tarry the crash, as good as whose names have been available upon the commemorative mill erected during the site dual years ago. With the pleasing rite choreographed brilliantly by Joe as good as Breege, interspersed with presentations to Chuck, the throng listened to the recounting of the Canadian’s conspicuous story.
422 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force arrived in Fermanagh in the open of 1944, youthful, joyous crews of group who had to illustrate distant in all enjoyed their quarrel experiences, stationed with Coastal Command in Scotland, safeguarding Merchant Navy convoys from the hazard of German U Boats.
They were to do the same pursuit from their bottom upon Lough Erne, patrolling out in to the Atlantic as good as additionally in to the Bay Of Biscay as good as the English Channel. Their purpose was an critical one- the U Boats were the customarily spoke of the German quarrel appurtenance which unequivocally fearful Churchill, as good as any mangle in the Allies supply line would have had the debilitating outcome upon the quarrel effort.
But to the airmen formed in still County Fermanagh, upon the customarily relaxed Lower Lough Erne, the quarrel contingency mostly have seemed the universe away. Chuck remembers which conditions upon the bottom were "beautiful, customarily fine", as good as which even when they were airborne, patrolling during an normal rise of 400 feet, there was never any genuine feeling of confusion or fear.
"We felt identical to zero was ever starting to occur to us out there. To fly was customarily the provide to get up as good as if they ever deferred the moody upon us we got sick, we know, customarily sick. we do not know any aircrew which ever worried- it was all jovial, droll guys which had the good time, we do not know anybody which ever disturbed about dying. Flying out to sea in those things was so peaceful. You roughly forgot which we had the pursuit to do it was so pleasing as good as peaceful."
During his reduced spell in Fermanagh, Chuck opportunely never had to glow his guns in annoy from his upon all sides in the turret during the tip of the hulk seaplane, though remembers the single arise when his organisation felt they were about to have their initial critical rendezvous with the enemy.
"We suspicion we had the span of them the single time," he said. "It looked identical to the mom vessel refuelling the not as big sub, so we dived during which thing, we had all the abyss charges out upon the wings, we were ready for everything… as good as they were dual of the many pleasing Blue Whales we ever saw in your life."
Chuck left his turret as good as directed the camera instead of his appurtenance gun. He took the integrate of photographs as good as left them in to get grown during the behind of during the base, though due to his hapless exit from Castle Archdale he was never means to collect them up again. "We went out feet initial as good as we never did get them. I’d desired to have had those pictures," he pronounced wistfully.
The greatest hazard to their reserve which Chuck encountered during the patrols essentially came from the Merchant Navy which the Sunderlands as good as Catalinas were sent to protect. Engagements with rivalry aircraft as good as U Boats were singular by 1944, though the Merchant convoys were jumpy, as good as sincerely ‘trigger happy’ removed Chuck.
"The misfortune partial was drifting to the single side the convoy, since those businessman people- they were sharpened during everything, as good as they didn’t know us from the enemy. When we used to proceed the procession the skipper used to give them any perspective they could of the markings or else the Merchant Navy would glow we down."
They would additionally glow phony flares by approach of identifying themselves, though the colours were altered frequently, as good as promulgation up the wrong colour could infer fatal. Call signs were additionally used for marker as good as altered frequently, though there is the single call pointer which is indelibly printed upon Chuck’s memory. ‘Eyeglass Eagle’. This was the final call pointer of Sunderland NJ175, as it took off around 11:15 upon Saturday morning, Aug 12, 1944. NJ175 was identical to any alternative Sunderland docked during the Flying Boat base, as good as was ostensible to have been checked by the engineers prior to take off. Every the single of the twelve male organisation had checks to have after being rowed out to the vessel upon the dinghy.
"When it was the spin to fly they’d put us in the vessel from the wharf as good as run us to the single of the boats, as good as we’d get upon it as good as check all out, as good as if something wasn’t right we’d air wave the vessel as good as it would come during the behind of as good as get us as good as take us to an additional one. Often there’d be dual or 3 prior to we’d get the single which was operational."
Everything happened in such the precipitate which it was sincerely usual to knowledge automatic problems, pronounced Chuck, as good as mostly the crews would be during the behind of during slightest an hour by repairs.
On the moody upon Aug twelve was his unchanging crew, all of whom had got to know any alternative identical to brothers, carrying flown as good as socialised together in Fermanagh for months, as good as the couple of trainees, superintendence the ropes, as good as sitting, fatally as it incited out, nearby the cockpit during the behind of the skipper, Flight Lieutenant Cam Devine.
They were streamer for the English Channel, anticipating to locate the German subs streamer for Norway from their bottom during Brest upon the French coast. The men- all members of the RCAF, were awaiting to be divided for in in between 10 as good as twelve hours, blazing an outrageous 2000 gallons of fuel. As it happened, they were customarily airborne for the fragment of which time- about thirty minutes- as good as had to bail out as many of the fuel as probable over the surrounding area.
"The engine sounded nervous all the time after we took off. It customarily didn’t receptive to advice identical to it was attack all cylinders, it sounded funny. But infrequently which clears up, though this time it didn’t," pronounced Chuck. The noises got worse as the craft reached the West Coast of Ireland as good as the complaint in the outdoor starboard engine had grown in to the fire. The organisation sent out the mayday call as good as incited around to lapse to base. Orders came in from Castle Archdale to sale the fuel as good as the abyss charges upon board, which would have exploded upon impacting with the ground.
Local people in the fields around Belleek were used to saying the outrageous Flying Boats sailing out to quarrel over their heads along the personally negotiated Donegal Corridor, though to see the single with thick black fume billowing out from the starboard engine was an surprising as good as shocking experience. Although Cashelard is the remote area, there were the series of people in the vicinity, receiving value of the good continue to work in the fields or suffer the initial day of the Grouse sharpened season. Their assent was about to be shattered.
On house the plane, transfer the 2000 gallons of fuel was proof as good dangerous, as the tall octane fuel was pouring out perilously tighten to the blazing engine, risking an blast which would blow the craft to smithereens. Flying Officer Alex Platsko, the Second Pilot, whose pursuit it was to sale the fuel as good as abyss charges in credentials for the reduction than slight landing, right divided had to close off the fuel bail out valve again.
And there was an additional problem- the lane for the abyss charges was sticking, as good as the organisation couldn’t get them out of the plane. Eventually, after the unfortunate struggle, the organisation worked the charges free, as good as they forsaken harmlessly to the ground, to be blown up subsequent day by the Irish Army as good as officials from Castle Archdale.
Platsko returned to the charge of shutting off the fuel bail out valve, though was shuddered out of his work by the shrill pile-up as the blazing engine unexpected froze up as good as the propeller disfigured off the missile as good as spun in to the starboard float, causing the craft to bank suddenly, steeply to the right. Chuck remembers the pointy snap of the propeller violation off, not prolonged prior to impact.
Skipper Cam Devine, customarily twenty-two years of age, had the quarrel upon his hands. With the single engine upon glow as good as out of action, as good as the half the tonne propeller embedded in the side of the single of his floats, the craft was losing tallness during the frightening rate as good as in risk of attack the belligerent laterally first. "We could’ve cartwheeled – if the wing had impressed initial we would all have been dead," pronounced Chuck.
The organisation members were receiving advantage of the pile-up position, something identical to what is suggested upon blurb airliners today, though though the whim proof cards. Cam Devine was fighting for his life, as good as the lives of his comrades, fighting to get the complicated craft during the behind of upon an even keel to give them the possibility in the pile-up alighting which was right divided inevitable. Somehow, opposite the odds, he completed this, righting the craft customarily prior to stroke upon the Cashelard ground, subsequent in saving the lives of 9 of his organisation members, though losing his own hold up in the process.
Chuck remembers sure aspects of the impact, though he was concussed, as good as red blood was streaming down his face. Three of the crew- Cam Devine, Pilot Officer R.T Wilkinson as good as Flight Sergeant Jack Forrest- died instantly. Alex Platsko, who hadn’t time to bend himself during the behind of in to his chair after jettisoning the abyss charges, was thrown by the windscreen, as good as survived, nonetheless he was severely injured.
The craft strike the mouth of the nation track, entrance down exact to the highway rsther than than along it, which caused the bottom half of the craft to be cut off in the remarkable halt. "When the bottom half of the craft was ripped out we was up in the roof removing my arms pennyless as good as my face cut, as good as concussion, as good as we was seeking down as good as we could see George Colbourne laying face-up upon the bottom of the boat," removed Chuck. "We went over the tip of him, though it looked identical to we were still as good as he was shifting upon the toboggan underneath us- which was the outcome we got. That was the final thing we remembered until we gained alertness again as good as attempted to get out of which thing."
The subsequent thing he remembers is the heather all around the pile-up site being upon fire. The Sunderland had damaged in dual places- during the tail, as good as in in between the underneath territory as good as the rest of the plane. The tail violation off was the good fortune in disguise, affording an shun induce for Chuck as good as the small of the alternative organisation members.
Dazed, bleeding, as good as with his left arm unresolved limply by his side, Chuck someway got out of the deformed stays of the plane. As aviation fuel leaked out of the craft the glow spread, as good as bullets as good as ammunition were bursting in the heat. Chuck staggered transparent of the heat, though listened George Colbourne good for help. George was trapped underneath the disadvantage of the tail, powerless, with dual damaged legs. Chuck incited during the behind of in to the flames.
"I can recollect starting during the behind of when we listened him good as good as screaming. we listened him prior to this, as good as we suspicion ‘God, I’m not starting to get him’, as good as afterwards he screamed the single some-more time as good as we thought: ‘I’ve got to get him’, so we went during the behind of after him. we pulled my arm out hauling him out- we tore the vinculum in my shoulder. we couldn’t operate my left arm- it was broken. So by the time we got him may be 50 to 100 feet away, we do not know how distant it was- until we couldn’t feel the feverishness anymore- we upheld out, as good as so did he."
The glow all engulfed the plane, though someway all of the survivors had got transparent of the wreckage. Joe O’Loughlin reached the craft upon his bicycle about half an hour after the crash, along with alternative locals as good as helpers, together with the presumably neutral Irish Army from Finner Camp, rescue services from Castle Archdale, as good as healing staff from Ballyshannon’s Shiel Hospital. All of the injured, with wounds trimming from the damaged during the behind of to serious burns, were taken to the hospital, where they remained for 48 hours prior to being eliminated to St Angelo Airport as good as over to sanatorium in England.
At this point, according to the annals of 422 Squadron, Sergeant Charles (Chuck) Singer died. This was utterly an shocking find for Bob Singer in Jan this year, who suspicion which his father had recovered from his injuries, perceived the healing liberate as good as flown during the behind of to Canada, where he after married, had 5 young kids as good as altered to Florida, gripping in hit with George Colbourne, who rang him any year upon Aug twelve to appreciate him for saving his hold up upon the waste Irish bog, the lifetime ago. Bob had motionless to do the small investigate in to his father’s Airforce career, as good as had stumbled upon the Squadron records. He knew really small of the crash, as good as zero of his medium father’s drastic rescue of Colbourne. He sent the reply to the website, saying which as his father had been assisting him in the back yard which morning, as good as in spite of the Lazurus-like reincarnation, he had not died in England upon Aug 14, 1944, as the Squadron annals reported. Chuck had longed for out upon over 50 years of armed military craft reunions interjection to an erring inform in the records. He had no suspicion which there was such seductiveness in those formed during Castle Archdale: "I didn’t have the clue- we suspicion which we were all forgotten. Joe here, he got after me right away- we got the minute inside of the week from him."
He additionally got in hold with the bold Alex Platsko, right divided Dr Alex Platsko, who lives in the prestigious Pebble Beach review in California. The dual elderly comrades talked together for the initial time in 58 years the couple of months ago, whilst Chuck systematic his Squadron badge, an honour he had not asked for over half the century.
This has been the year of extraordinary find for both Chuck as good as Bob, who accompanied his father upon his romantic lapse to Fermanagh as good as to Cashelard. Under the peaceful superintendence of Joe, they have revisited so many areas of outrageous stress for Chuck- the good kept quarrel graves in Irvinestown where his 3 comrades have been buried; Castle Archdale with Breege McCusker; the Shiel Hospital in Ballyshannon where Chuck asked the staff if he due them anything as good as joked which he had "an superb check from ’44"; as good as finally, many emotionally of all, the site during Cashelard where Sunderland NJ175 crashed 58 years ago to the day.
Full of regard for the people of Fermanagh- "a smashing race", Chuck earnings this week to Florida, brimful with gifts such as the mounted square of the disadvantage of his plane, the framed reference commemorating his bravery, the duplicate of the commemorative board erected to the mental recall of his depressed comrades, as good as the reproduction indication of the planes in which he soared upon top of the seas, risking his tomorrow for the today.
Having been reaquainted with his armed military craft as good as returned to the site of his wartime practice he admits to being impressed with his time in Fermanagh. As distant as Castle Archdale, Cashelard as good as some-more particularly, Flying Boats go, he has customarily the single disappointment, as good as he is not the customarily one: "It’s the contrition there isn’t the single for we guys to demeanour at, we know? They’re all upon the bottom of the lake. Isn’t which crazy?"
Taken from "Commonwealth Plots in Irvinestown County Fermanagh"
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The injuries to the organisation Killed F/lt E.C. Devine ( Pilot ) elderly 22.
( Buried Irvinestown Church of Ireland ).
P/O. J R Forrest W.Op / AG.
( Buried Irvinestown Roman universal Churchyard).
F/O. R T Wilkinson Pilot elderly 22.
(Buried Irvinestown Church of Ireland).
Surviving organisation members. Sgt Allen ( Navigator).
Severe conduct injuries , browns to hands as good as legs.
Sgt Jeal. ( Flt/Engineer).
Fracture to spinal column , endless browns to his hands as good as face.
Sgt Colbourne (A/G).
Head damage , fractured right leg.
Sgt Platsko. ( 2nd Pilot).
Head injury.
Sgt Oderskirk.(W.Op/ AG).
hand as good as facial injuries.
Sgt.Clarke (FME/AG).
Compressed detonate of the spine.
Sgt Singer ( A/G).
Fractured left arm.
P/O A. Locke.
(W.Op/AG).
Head injury.
Post Processing: light balance, equalization, sharpening
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