"Punch" Dickins and the Origin of Canol's Mackenzie Air Fields

Abstract

Correspondence between the Canadian flyer, C.H. "Punch" Dickins, and government officials in Ottawa during the early summer of 1942 reveals that the United States Army began building an "unauthorized" military air route to Norman Wells ... much earlier than the U.S. War Department's official histories admit, and that, although Canada's Cabinet War Committee professedly knew nothing of it, certain Canadian government personnel were privy to the secret. ...