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Description
Mr. Reid describes crew composition and the relationship between British and Canadian airmen.
Transcription
There's seven members of a crew and as I mentioned, where our course was air bombers and that's how we got to the RAF station because they, at that point, needed, needed air bombers so... The other trades, the pilot, the navigator, the engineer, the mid upper and the tail, they were also on the station of their groups, but they were all English, as I mentioned, and our course was Canadian as air bombers and that, that's how we got crewed up.
No, basically, they had all these trades, and they'd just picked a, as you came, like the six Brits, and they'd say okay, in my case like the rest of our course, "You're with this group", and that's how you start, and it was rather interesting in that the English, in my experience, we'd get airborne, we'd do our practice whatever, and we'd land, and the six of them would flock away and you'd wait there by yourself until another flight height came back and another Canadian would come out. And the English take a while to accept you, and I found that was... they, basically, their outlook was you prove yourself and then we're, we're a-ok.