The Firebirds: An Account of the First 50 Years of the Ontario Provincial Air Service [Fifty]

xiv, 258 pp. Sepia photographs, jacket art and illustrations by James Lumbers. "The first bush pilots were men who had used their wing to fight the German Army. But in Ontario, the enemy was fire...forest fire that had killed as many as 224 people in one day, destroyed 7 towns and burned 2000 square miles of wilderness. Author Bruce West describes the battle which the firebirds have fought ever since. Here is a true story of ingenuity, guts and gasoline...bush pilots and the men who have kept them in the air since the turbulent beginning of bush flying, the creation of the Ontario Provincial Air Service in 1924."--jacket