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Originally posted by Hanno Spoelstra
O.K., it is with "with great difficulty" I will accept this really happened. 
I think the Aussies did a more credible job, though!
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Hanno, truth is sometimes stranger than fiction! The incident in Canada did indeed happen and has been well documented. There is a very good book out about the experiences of the British Commonwealth Airman Training Plan called the "Yellow Peril" The BCATP was one of Canada's greatest, contributions to the war effort in terms of manpower supplied and money expended. Unfortunately the BCATP has been largely unheralded and ignored by authors of WW II stories. The BCATP ultimately employed over 104,000 personnel and was graduating over 5,000 aircrew a month at its peak. No mean feat for a small country, population wise, such as Canada who also supplied several Infantry Divisions, a Navy, and kept the factories running to supply the materiel of war.
CHIMO!