Hugh A. Halliday is an Ottawa

Ottawa

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, Canada

Canada

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-based military historian. He served in the offices of the RCAF's

Royal Canadian Air Force

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 Air Historian (1960–1965), Canadian Forces Directorate of History (1965–1968), taught at Niagara College (1968–1974) and was further employed at the Canadian War Museum (1974–1995) in various capacities including Curator of War Art, Curator of Posters and Photographs, and historian. His articles have been published in scholarly and mass-market military history publications and he has contributed to the Air Force Association of Canada

Air Force Association of Canada

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's website respecting aerial awards. He and John Blatherwick provided information for a CD, "Courage and Service". produced by Service Publications of Ottawa.

Books

• Valour Reconsidered: Inquiries Into the Victoria Cross and Other Awards for Extreme Bravery (2006)
• Not in the face of the enemy: Canadians awarded the Air Force Cross and Air Force Medal, 1918-1966 (2000)
• Murder among gentlemen: A history of duelling in Canada (1999)
• Canada's Air Forces (with Brerton Greenhaus, 1999)
• Wreck!: Canada's worst railway accidents (1997)
• Typhoon and Tempest: The Canadian Story (1992)
• The Royal Canadian Air Force at War, 1939-1945 (with Larry Milberry
  Larry Milberry
  Larry Milberry is a Canadian aviation author and publisher.Milberry is a lifelong aviation enthusiast whose first book, Aviation in Canada, was published by McGraw-Hill in 1979. Now an aviation classic, this book was written over a decade while he worked as a high school teacher in the Toronto...
  
  , 1990)
• Woody: A Fighter Pilot's Album (1987)
• The Little Blitz (1984)
• 242 Squadron (1982)
• The Tumbling Sky (1977)
• The Wreck of the Lady of the Lake (1974)