Navigation school

I ended up taking my nav training in St. John’s, Quebec and that was just an opening school too, even though the war had been on for two or three years, nothing was permanent residence, permanent places or anything like that but nav school consisted of a lot of ground training, and maybe 100 hours of flying training. That was our first experience in flying training. And we had Anson aircrafts then which was twin engine airplanes and so we did about 100 hours of flying, both day and night on cross country trips from St. Johns up to Ottawa and around down the St. Lawrence and back to Montreal, and down the other way, down to the American border then through Maygog and the lakes down there and those kind of routes. And we were navigating, you know, they’d give you a lot of ground work training, how to land, draw tracks on locator maps and read compasses and read altimeters and there was meteorology training and also you knew what the weather was going to be and you know a whole bunch of, five or six different subjects that they taught us. And flying at night, from St. John’s to Ottawa, they could see the lights of both towns, you know, so how much we were doing navigating, they were aiming for the lights, I’m not really sure!!