Enlisting with the RCAF

I guess, that I kind of was inclined to go for the RCAF principally because I thought it would be a learning curve and maybe a little better than the army in that sense. I got an idea from the corporals and what not, what the army was like and, I sort of decided "Hey, if I'm going to join up, I'll join the RCAF." And at that time you just joined as aircrew, you didn't have a choice of whether you wanted to be a pilot or a navigator or whatever, you joined as air crew. And unfortunately when I did my eye test, I have one eye that's a little shorter-sighted than the other, and so that negated me as a pilot. So I was sent to, the first station I went to was to Winnipeg to the wireless air school there and I can't remember how long, how long we were there. I would say, about four months and then we, then we were shipped to Lethbridge where we went to a bombing and gunnery school outside of Lethbridge. And then we were assigned to, to air crews on the Lockheed Hudsons.