BCATP

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BCATPBritish Commonwealth Air Training Plan (WWII pilots)
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In Canada, the Canadian government / RCAF bought and owned all BCATP aircraft as well as all the aircraft flown and operated by the RCAF's "home squadrons"--those numbered in the No.
THE "CANADIAN" FACTOR: The importance of Canadianizing our aerial forces in WWII
Includes transportation by air-conditioned, washroom-equipped bus, morning al fresco refreshments at Camp Hughes, lunch, dinner, admission to the BCATP Museum and The Royal Canadian Artillery Museum at Shilo and all taxes and gratuities.
MHS / St, Francois Xavier historical society spring field trip: Manitoba's military legacy
Robin Higham, Professor Emeritus, Military History, Kansas State University, Sometime BCATP Graduate
Aviation in Canada: The Formative Years
Of the 701 BCATP hangars constructed, only forty-one are known to have survived.
National commemoration for Hangar No. 1 of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, Brandon, Manitoba
Part of the agreement that set it up in 1939 stated: "The United Kingdom Government undertakes that pupils of Canada, Australia and New Zealand shall, after training is completed, be identified with their respective Dominions." But the British mostly ignored that and sent hundreds and then thousands of Canadian BCATP graduates to Royal Air Force squadrons when they arrived in Britain.
MAKING DIFFICULT DECISIONS IN WAR: Putting the "Canadian" in "Royal Canadian Air Force"
He explains, "The Cornell was a low-wing, two-pilot elementary training aircraft that had been supplied in considerable numbers to the government of Great Britain, by the government of the United States, for use in the BCATP, under the 1941 'Lend-Lease' agreement between those two countries."
Decimated, demoralized & disbanded: no. 124 (Ferry) Squadron's demise following the 1946 crash of Dakota 962
The two-seater trainer was used extensively at BCATP elementary flying schools until 1943.
Robert English: a fighter pilot's own story and an enduring mystery
The first draft of BCATP pilots went overseas in March.1941.
A century of powered flight Part 2
Local citizens of a particular generation vividly recall the war effort and the daily appearance in the skies of BCATP aircraft with their distinctive yellow colour.
Building Canada's Bomber Command Memorial
By 1941, about one-third of RAF aircrew were Canadian (although airmen from several countries were also trained in Canada as part of BCATP).
1941: a year of infamy ... and of growth
A few days later, he eagerly embraced the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) proposed by Vincent Massey, Canada's High Commissioner to Britain, and his Australian counterpart Stanley Bruce.
World War II: thunderclap! Bomber command and the air offensive against Germany
In the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), Canadian aircrew candidates were pawns on a treadmill over which they had no control.
World War I: song of Little Norway
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