Eighty years on, we pay tribute to the heroism of Art and George Coles It’s 80 years since news arrived in 1943 that Arthur and George Coles were missing in action. Flying Spitfires and Avro Lancaster bombers, respectively, each of the brothers from North Vancouver was doing his bit for the Allies in the fight against the Nazi war machine. One brother was to survive the Second World War – the other tragically did not. It was a twist of fate that the brothers were even from Canada in the first place. Born in 1873, their father, Charles Petley Coles...