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War - Not all Memories are Bad Ones

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War - Not all Memories are Bad Ones

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I suppose, this may sound a little silly, I suppose the best times I had, when after living in the horrible living conditions we had up in the desert, to get three days back in Cairo was the most wonderful thing you can imagine. We'd go in, we'd go in and get a hotel room and have a bath, have another bath because we had no water in the desert. You'd go, you'd go weeks and weeks and weeks without a bath, you couldn’t even shave sometimes and to get back to Cairo and loll in a hot bath and, and when it got too muddy looking, you got out and dumped that and you got a new bath in you finally got yourself down to skin rather than ground-in sand. And then to go out and have a great big meal of steak or something like that. That was heaven, absolutely. That sounds kind of frivolous but that, that’s the way I felt about it.
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Mr. Chisholm recalls the best time he had during his wartime service.

William Lawrence (Red) Chisholm

Mr. Chisholm’s father was a station agent in Berwick, Nova Scotia with the Dominion Atlantic Railway. He moved his family to the station in Windsor, Nova Scotia and then later left the railroad and bought a store in Kentville, Nova Scotia. Mr. Chisholm completed his education in the Kentville school system. He worked briefly with his father after graduation from high school then went to work as a brakeman for the Dominion Atlantic Railway. After enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940, he took his initial training in Toronto. He was then one of about 500 sent to the first class at British Air Training Program Training School in Regina for a period of two months. After completing his training he moved to a Flying School in London, Ontario. Mr. Chisholm went on to become an ace pilot and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), with bar.

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Video
Owner:
Veterans Affairs Canada
Duration:
01:16
Person Interviewed:
William Lawrence (Red) Chisholm
War, Conflict or Mission:
Second World War
Location/Theatre:
Canada
Branch:
Air Force
Units/Ship:
92nd Operational Squadron
Rank:
Sergeant
Occupation:
Pilot

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