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These airmen served as aircrew on bombers and maritime patrol aircraft. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a temporary wartime measure that ended on 29 March 1945. No. 1 B&GS opened 19 August 1940 and closed on 17 February 1945. During this time 6,500 airmen were trained at Jarvis. [1] [2] [3] [4]
G. Don Gallinger; Cal Gardner; Émile Genest; Edmund William George; Richard Geren; Clarence Gerhart; Gus Giesebrecht; James Gillies; Gustave Gingras; Bill Glennie
Canadian Forces Base Picton (CFB Picton) was a military installation located in Picton, Ontario. The base was active from the Second World War to 1969 and served the Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Army. Today, the site functions as the Picton Airport. [2] [3]
The names of these missing men are recorded on the Ottawa Memorial. The others are buried at various locations in Canada, including the Maitland Cemetery in Goderich, Ontario. McGee's list is publicly displayed at the Huron County Museum & Historic Gaol. The airmens' graves at Maitland Cemetery
No. 1 FTS was one of Canada's contributions to the training of foreign airmen for a new multinational force. The last FTS course was completed in March 1957 and No. 1 Flying Training School was deactivated and merged with the Advanced Flying School at Saskatoon.
This article contains a List of Facilities of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) in Canada. The BCATP was a major program for training Allied air crews during World War II that was administered by the Government of Canada, and commanded by the Royal Canadian Air Force with the assistance of a board of representatives from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Gordon was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, [1] the son of Ethel May and Arthur Kidder a cannery manager and educated in the local high school and then at the University of Toronto after winning the James Harris Scholarship for modern languages where he studied both French and German languages earning a Bachelor of Arts degree.
This is a list of flying aces in World War I from Canada.A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. . Canadians served in the British flying services–the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service, and the Royal Air Force, as Canada had no air arm until the formation of the Canadian Air Force on September 1