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Showing posts with label The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Show all posts

2013-11-15

Vintage Wings of Canada : Oxboxes Over the Prairies

Forwarded message - From: Vintage Wings

Ladies and Gentlemen Aviators
Nearly 70 years after VE Day, the world finally has a repository of photographic memories that anyone can explore. Social Media is fast becoming a cyber-archive for almost-lost photographs of the Second World War. Let's take a look at three collections of photographs from No. 36 SFTS Penhold found on Flickr. Follow this link to learn more: http://www.vintagewings.ca/Home/tabid/40/language/en-CA/Default.aspx


Dave O'Malley, Vintage Wings of Canada
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2012-02-04

video: "Webinar-The Aerodrome of Democracy"

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) in Canada was an important contribution to the victory of the Allies. Thousand of young peoples were trained in the North American. Amongst them some Belgians. This video explains what was the BCATP as well how this achievement is remembered today.


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The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) was a massive exercise in planning, construction and community involvement that, in a few short years, trained hundreds of thousands of airmen from Canada and the British Commonwealth.
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