The Insubordinate and the Noncompliant : Case Studies of Canadian Mutiny and Disobedience, 1920 to Present

FOREWORD 9 Major-General P.R. Hussey PREFACE 11 Colonel Bernd Horn ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 13 Howard G. Coombs INTRODUCTION 15 Howard G. Coombs 1 GOOD MEN PUSHED TOO FAR? THE FIRST CANADIAN PARACHUTE BATTALION HUNGER STRIKE, 20-23 OCTOBER 1944 25 Bernd Horn 2 THE REVOLT OF THE CANADIAN GENERALS, 1944: THE. CASE FOR THE PROSECUTION 55 Richard J. Walker 3 LEADERSHIP AND LACK OF MORAL FIBRE IN BOMBER COMMAND, 1939-1945: LESSONS FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW 101 Allan English 4 ERRANT AIRCREW: A CASE FOR "GREY" INSUBORDINATION IN NO. 6 GROUP (ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE), BOMBER COMMAND IN 1943 125 David Bercuson 5 MURDER BY SPITFIRE? PROBING FOR MUTINY AND INDISCIPLINE IN CANADA'S SECOND WORLD WAR AIR FORCE 143 Dean C. Black 6 AFTER THE EMERGENCY: DEMOBILIZATION STRIKES, POLITICAL STATEMENTS, AND THE MORAL ECONOMY IN CANADA'S AIR FORCES, 1919-1946 173 Rachel Lea Heide 7 MATELOTS, MARTINETS, AND MUTINEERS: THE MUTINY IN HMCS IROQUOIS, 19 JULY 1943 211 Michael Whitby 8 PROTESTORS OR TRAITORS? INVESTIGATING CASES OF CREW SABOTAGE IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY, 1942-1945 243 Richard O. Mayne 9 THE V-F DAY RIOTS IN HALIFAX, 7-8 MAY 1945 259 Robert H. Caldwell 10 THE POST-WAR "INCIDENTS" IN THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY, 1949 289 Richard H. Gintbktt 11 THE STORM OVER UNIFICATION OF THE ARMED FORCES: A CRISIS OF CANADIAN CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS 309 Daniel P. Gosselin 12 THE AIR FORCE AND FLIGHT SAFETY: A CULTURE OF TOLERATED DISOBEDIENCE? 345 Randall Wakelam 13 WHEN ORDERS CONFLICT: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE BOARD OF INQUIRY - CROATIA 371 Gordon Sharpe 14 WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? AN EXAMINATION OF DISOBEDIENCE IN THE FORMER CANADIAN AIRBORNE REGIMENT, 1968-1995 397 Bernd Horn APPENDIX: COMPLETE 'FABLE OF PRE-UNIFICATION AND POST-UNIFICATION RANKS OF ALL SERVICES 427 GLOSSARY 429 CONTRIBUTORS 433 INDEX 439