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  1. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    I have had the idea of researching the fatal casualties incurred from 1939-1945 among the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada. There are crash sites and graves across the country but, to my knowledge, no one has comprehensively documented or written about it.
    The total deaths among BCATP airmen, including both students and graduates, was approx. 2,108.

    Between May 1940 and March 1945, more than 167,000 students from Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand, as well as from Belgium, Free France and Poland, were trained in Canada. The BCATP schools produced some 50,000 pilots during the course of the war. At the plan's peak, 107 schools operating at 231 sites across Canada, 10,840 aircraft were involved, and the ground organization numbered 104,113 men and women, and three thousand trainees graduated each month. At a cost of more than $ 1.6 billion, 131,553 pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators, air gunners, and flight engineers were graduated.
     
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  2. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    Does this help?

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  3. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Sounds like a very worthy subject for a book. Good luck and get working. :)
     
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