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Air Training Plan

1940 – 1945

The Most Costly Air Battle in Canadian History

The Great Canadian Air Battle
It is easy to forget certain things about the war.  When we consider
Canada's participation in the Second World War, we understandably
think about the ordeals of Hong Kong and Dieppe, the difficult battles
in Italy, the spectacular landing on 6 June 1944, and the long campaign
to reclaim Europe that followed.  The contributions of Canadian pilots to
the Battle of Britain, and of the Royal Canadian Navy to the victory in the
Atlantic, are also remembered.  However, all too often, we forget that the
war was also taking place on Canadian soil.  In fact, during the early years
of the conflict, it was mostly in Canada that the war found its victims:
over 1,000 airmen had already lost their lives on Canadian bases
before the raid on Dieppe was launched in August 1942.  From the
beginning of 1942 to the end of 1944, 831 fatal air accidents took
place in Canada – an average of 23 per month, or five every week.
Each week, at least a dozen airmen died in Canada, an enormous number...
During the first years of the war, Canada was
the most dangerous place a pilot could be...
The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
and RCAF Fatalities During the Second World War
by Dr. Jean Martin
Canadian Military Journal, Spring 2002
    http://www.journal.dnd.ca/vo3/no1/doc/65-69-eng.pdf

Photographs of Memorial
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Middleton
Annapolis County
Nova Scotia

GPS location:   44°56'03"N   65°05'10"W
Google map

Photographed on 28 July 2003

South face (above)     North face (below)

Photographed on 4 October 2002

Also see:   Commonwealth Air Training Plan memorial, Kingston

Photographed at 6:11am on 13 June 2003

Photographed on 13 June 2003

Photographed on 13 June 2003

BCATP Pennant
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Located in the Aviation Museum at CFB Greenwood

Greenwood Military Aviation Museum

Photographed on 2 June 2003

Photographed on 2 June 2003

British Commonwealth Air Training Plan

Clipping: Page A15, National Post, 28 December 2005

Introduction – first excerpt: Page A15, National Post, 28 December 2005

Introduction – second excerpt: Page A15, National Post, 29 December 2005

Introduction – third excerpt: Page A15, National Post, 30 December 2005

Clipping: Page A15, National Post, 29 December 2005

"Behind the Glory, Canada's Role in the Allied Air War", by Ted Barris
Reprinted 2005 by Thomas Allen Publishers, Toronto     ISBN 0887622127

History of the BCATP Stanley Flying School 1941-1944
by Peter E. Lawson, 30 pages, 2006

I bought my copy at the convenience store in Scotch Village.

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First uploaded to the WWW:   2002 October 05
Better photographs installed:   2003 November 05
BCATP Pennant installed:   2003 November 10
Better photograph installed:   2003 December 11
National Post clippings installed:   2006 January 01
Stanley Flying School (booklet) added:   2007 May 14
Added Google Map link:   2007 December 17
Latest update:   2013 August 20