Pilot Training

Heroes Remember

Pilot Training

Transcript

I guess it was kind of a commander course, that number two air gunnery. It wasn’t a gunnery course, but it was an HES, and it was officers training. And we all got our postings. At that time, of course, everybody wanted to be a fighter pilot. But by that time in the war, I mean, fighter pilots were out, and these Bomber pilots… so, I asked for multi-aircraft, multi-engineer craft. So I got sent to, out to Boundary Bay and enrolled in that course, 5OTU. And we got crewed out there with our crew, which I was the second pilot at that time, and Bob Marcoux was our skipper. And we trained on Mitchells, and from there on, we went to Abbotsford, and trained on Liberators as a crew. We were a crew from the time, from Canada, all through the war, which was nice.

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Mr. Power talks about learning to fly multi-engine aircrafts and being selected to go to Boundary Bay, where he joined a crew that he would fly with throughout the war.

Robert Power

Robert Power was born in 1920, in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He grew up in a small fishing village with a one-room schoolhouse. Before enlisting in 1942, Mr. Power studied biochemistry. He served as a pilot in the RAF and spent 26 years in the military. After the war, Mr. Power returned to medicine and became a doctor.

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