Martin Pederson -- Typhoon pilot  Martin Pederson had a good
long "think" about it ... and came to a conclusion. If he was
going to be of any use as a fighter pilot, he had to give up
this idea of wanting to survive, and resign himself to dying.  
That was the only way, he figured, that he'd be able to do his
job.   It was 1944 and the young Canadian's job was flying a
Typhoon fighter-bomber on coastal strike duties for the RAF's
137 Squadron.  As he put it 53 years later, "unless I could get
control of my emotions, I was a dead duck!"  It was an usually
sober realization for a 22-year-old to make, a crucial milestone
in a journey that had begun in June 1940, when Pederson (from
Hawarden, near North Battleford) enlisted in the RCAF. He passed
through No. 7 Initial Training School in Saskatoon, then
Elementary Flying Training School in Virden and Service Flying
Training School at Ottawa, where his wings were presented by no
less than prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King.  By 1942,
Pederson was headed o