Hillman Military Sites

NAVIGATION MAP TO THE HILLMAN
WORLD WAR II and MILITARY TRIBUTE SITES

www.hillmanweb.com/war
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Since 1999 I have created over 1,000 Military Tribute Webpages:
research, veteran tributes, news, memories, magazines, photos, documents, etc.
This material was for promotion of Brandon's Air Museum and their Website.
Since I was asked to leave the site this wealth of research has been dumped
from the Website I created as an unpaid volunteer during the last +20 years.
Fortunately I had personally paid for all Web storage costs on my personal server
but under their Museum address.
After hundreds of hours of work, I have salvaged much of this material
with thousands of new links on my personal site with much more to come.
Many of the salvaged links are featured below:

CONTENTS
Hillman RCAF Connection
LOCAL MILITARY HEROES
F/O Gordon Waddell
Mike Spack Memoirs
. . . Many more scattered through our Webzine Files . . .

FAMILY TRIBUTES
F/L William Gavin Campbell
F/L Donald Ernest Hillman
F/O James Gordon Hillman
CPO Robert Gerald Hillman
Lieutenant Colonel James Grant
BOMBER BOYS: The Fighting Lancasterz: 4-hour BCAP Documentary

ONLINE WEBZINES AND REPRINTS
AS YOU WERE. . .FLASH: 250 Monthly Webzines ~ Every Month Since 1999
RCAF Ex-Air Gunners: SHORT BURSTS ~ Monthly 1983-2008
WWII BCATP STATION MAGAZINES ~ 200 Reprints

CANADA 150 BCATP VIGNETTES
+30 Giant Webpages Full of 150 Anecdotes ~ Hundreds of Photos

CJATC RIVERS RCAF BASE
11 Giant Illustrated Webpages

USAF MUSEUM ~ WW II GALLERY

WESTMAN AIR SHOW 2005

XII MANITOBA DRAGOONS MUSEUM
Thousands of Pages, Articles, Tours and Photos of Military Memorabilia

Edgar Rice Burroughs: The War Years
Dean of WWII Correspondents in the Pacific

HILLMAN BRANDON HISTORY PROJECT

Plus Countless More Features Soon To Be Transfered to Site
Virtual Tours ~ Events ~ Air Shows ~ Memorial Wall ~ Celebrations. . .

HILLMAN WWII RCAF CONNECTION
www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf

LOCAL MILITARY HEROES:
F/O Gordon Waddell
Shot Down Over Europe ~ Eluded Capture via the Underground

Mike Spack Memoirs
WWII RCAF Mosquito Pilot ~ 100 pages of text and 150 photographs

FAMILY TRIBUTES

A MEMORIAL SITE PAYING TRIBUTE TO
F/L WILLIAM GAVIN CAMPBELL
and the CREW OF LANCASTER KB879
Part I: The HomeFront

Part II: Memorial Dedication and Tributes in England:
RAF ~ Legion ~ BBC ~ Memorial Flypast
www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf/william
www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf/lancaster.html
www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf/william/d1arrive.html

F/L DONALD ERNEST HILLMAN
PART I | PART II | PART III | PART IV | PART V
From Elrose, Saskatchewan. Killed in Action Jun. 24/44 age 26. #148 Squadron (Trusty).
BROTHER to James Gordon Hillman.
Halifax aircraft # JP237 missing during a secret night operation
twenty three miles north-east of Genoa.
Flight Lieutenant Pilot Hillman is buried in the Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy.

F/O James Gordon Hillman
From Elrose, Saskatchewan. Killed in Action Feb. 25/44 age 27. #408 Goose Squadron (For Freedom).
BROTHER to Donald Ernest Hillman.
Lancaster aircraft # DS844 was shot down twelve miles south of the target
during night operations against Schweinfurt, Germany.
Flying Officer Navigator Hillman has no known grave,
his name is inscribed on the Runnymede War Memorial, Englefield Green, Egham Surrey, England.

H.M.C.S. PRINCE ROBERT TRIBUTE
CPO JERRY HILLMAN

Convoy to Free Hong Kong POWs and Accept Jap Surrender
History ~ Diaries ~ Memories ~ Photos
www.hillmanweb.com/rcn

Lieutenant Colonel James Grant
Military Heritage of the Extended Grant Family
and
From Pharmacy to Helicopters

BOMBER BOYS: The Fighting Lancaster
with Robin Hillman
A 4-hour BCATP re-enactment documentary
Filmed in Canada ~ England ~ Belgium ~ Holland
https://www.historytelevision.ca/microsites/bomberboys/

ONLINE WEBZINES AND REPRINTS

AS YOU WERE...
www.hillmanweb.com/war/asyouwere
WAR YEARS MEMORIES
Alternate Location
F.L.A.S.H.: Forces on Land ~ Air ~ Sea ~ Home
www.hillmanweb.com/flash
Compiled by Bill Hillman
A Monthly Webzine ~ Every Month Since 1999
Wherein we share an eclectic assortment of items gleaned from the
Internet, media and contributing readers.
Hudreds of Issues ~ Thousands of Photos

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SHORT BURSTS

www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf/mag
The Official Monthy Webzine for the RCAF Ex-Air Gunners
NAVIGATION MAP TO OUR BACK ISSUES IN ARCHIVE
Editor: John Moyles
Webmaster and Online Editor: Bill Hillman
Short Bursts was published from March 1983 through December 2007
At that time longtime editor retired due to health problems.

WWII BCATP STATION MAGAZINES
200 High Quality Reprints in PDF
www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf/reprints

CANADA 150 BCATP VIGNETTES
+30 Giant Webpages Full of 150 Anecdotes ~ Hundreds of Photos
www.hillmanweb.com/150

USAF MUSEUM ~ WW II GALLERY
Hillman Photo Tours of
Wright-Patterson AFB ~ Dayton, Ohio

WESTMAN AIR SHOW 2005

The Dean of WWII Correspondents in the Pacific
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The War Years

www.ERBzine.com/war

XII MANITOBA DRAGOONS MUSEUM
Thousands of Pages, Articles, Tours and Photos of Military Memorabilia
Brandon Armoury, Brandon, Manitoba

HILLMAN BRANDON HISTORY PROJECT
BRANDON PHOTO ARCHIVE
THE GREAT WAR YEARS

**VISIT THE HILLMAN MILITARY TRIBUTES**
F.L.A.S.H. As You Were . . . Tribute Webzines	Navigation Chart to the Hillman WWII Tributes www.hillmanweb.com/war	RCAF WWII MUSEUM www.hillmanweb.com/rcaf RCN HMCS PRINCE ROBERT www.hillmanweb.com/rcn	Short Bursts Ex-Air Gunners Association Magazines

BCATP WWII and RCAF TRIBUTES FACEBOOK GROUP

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BILL & SUE-ON HILLMAN ECLECTIC STUDIO
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