American Flying Instructor
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American Flying Instructor
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January 5th, 1941 was the first that I ever flew and Mr. Brown
was my instructor because what they had started with flying
clubs took on a contract to train. And Mr. Brown was an American
and I’d like to get this point across because with everything
here. During the wartime, 8800 Americans came up and joined the
air force. Some of them because of connections like Jake
Robertson, very close friend from Indiana, his grandfather had
been Canadian. And the Americans weren’t in the war. Others came
up for those reasons but others came up because they had flying
experience. They had instructors, commercial tickets and so they
came up through the underground which was actually operated by
the British Council from New York to Montreal, from Chicago to
Windsor, from Seattle to (inaudible). And without the help of
the Americans, the British Common Wealth Air Training Plan would
have had difficulty getting off the floor. And Mr. Brown was my
instructor. The big thing about this is that when they came into
the war in 1941 for higher pay, benefits and so on, 2200 went
back into the army air corp. They didn’t have the air force
then. Army air corp. Six hundred stayed until the end of the war
in the RCAF and that’s something I stress when I’m giving some
talks.
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