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- Front of the Rum ration & Cigarette card on the HMCS Bonaventure - November 1969.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- Back of the Rum ration & Cigarette card on the HMCS Bonaventure - November 1969.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- The bow of the HMCS Kootenay (as seen from the HMCS Bonaventure) - 1969.
The Kootenay was expected to recover any aircrew who ditched at sea.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- CP-121 Tracker aircraft on approach to the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- CP-121 Tracker aircraft landing on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- CH-124 Sea King helicopter about to land on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- CF-124 Sea King helicopters landing on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- Military personnel on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
(L-R) - Cpl Jim Walsh, Sgt Gord McSweeney.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- Military personnel on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
(L-R) - Cpl Jim Walsh, Sgt Gord McSweeney.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- Military personnel personnel on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1969.
(L-R) - Cpl Jim Walsh, Cpl Bob Browner.
Courtesy Bob Browner.
- Aerial photo of the HMCS Bonaventure - 1968.
Note the deckload of Sea Kings and Trackers.
Courtesy DND via Dave Shirlaw.
- Aerial view of the HMCS Bonaventure fresh from the 1967-1968 refit - 1968.
Note the presence of Sea Kings at the stern.
Courtesy DND.
- View of the flight deck on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1968.
Courtesy John Emerick.
- CP-121 Tracker landing on the HMCS Bonaventure - 1967.
Courtesy Robert St. Pierre.
- Aerial view of the HMCS Bonaventure - 1967.
Courtesy John Emerick.
- Aerial view of the HMCS Bonaventure - 1965.
The aircraft on deck are all Treckers. The Sea Kings had not yet entered the fleet.
Courtesy DND via Bill Croshaw.
- Aircraft crash on the deck of the HMCS Bonaventure - 1965.
Courtesy John Daley.
- An older photo of a CS-2F-1 Tracker aircraft - 1964.
The "B" on the tail marked this aircraft as part of the HMCS Bonaventure airwing.
Courtesy Leon Wohlert.
- Aerial view of the HMCS Bonaventure - 1962.
Banshees are on the deck.
Courtesy DND.
- Aerial view of four RCN F2H-3 Banshee jets over the HMCS Bonaventure - 1960.
Courtesy Glenn Cook.
- Banshee 414 ready for take-off from the HMCS Bonaventure - 1960.
Courtesy Glenn Cook.
- Banshee 105 preparing to take off from HMCS Bonaventure - September 1957.
September also marked the first carrier landings of the Banshee on the Bonaventure and pilots praised the angled deck, the mirror landing system and also the Safe Flight Indicator which had recently been installed on all squadron Aircraft.
Courtesy Glenn Cook.
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