Open Question: United commonwealth air fields training Canada What did you think we were doing while Yanks handed Hitler $$$$?

10 February 2012, 12:35 am

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP; "The Plan"), known in some countries as the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War.[1] BCATP/EATS remains the single largest aviation training program in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the war.[2] Under a parallel agreement, the Joint Air Training Scheme, South Africa trained 33,347 aircrew for the South African Air Force and other Allied air forces.[3] This number was exceeded only by Canada, which trained 131,500 personnel.[4] Southern Rhodesia at the time was a British Crown Colony (rather than a Dominion) and was not involved in the negotiation or signing of the BCATP; the Southern Rhodesia Air Force was subsumed by the RAF in 1940. However, Rhodesia provided significant EATS facilities and contributed personnel to British units. Students from many other countries attended schools under these plans, including Argentina, Belgium, Ceylon, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Fiji, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and the United States.[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Commonwealth_Air_Training_Plan Troll -- Take a look at Prescott Bush buddy -- his reciept book tells a tale of treason trading with the enemy and supporting the enemies by financial means -- a true subversive enemy of freedom and a supporter of those determined to murder British subjects and soldiers -- A common criminal Ford who supplied material aid and the direct means of murder of those opposing Nazi tyranny IBM supported directly the death camps by technical aid in mass murder Go on look -- I dare you -- But cowardly you won't... Read More »

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