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BCATP( British Commonwealth Air Training Plan)
Asteria
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Canada made a major contribution to Allied air superiority during World War II.
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Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia
signed an agreement creating the BCATP.
December 17, 1939
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On the southern parts of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan,
farmer's fields were transformed in a matter of a few months into
operational schools.
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The governments used propaganda to get young men to join the war effort.
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- Pilots
- Navigators
- bomb aimers
- wireless operators
- air gunners
- flight engineers train in Canada
Training was offered for all of these jobs in the air force.
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Thousands of pilots were trained here (Ottawa during WWII)
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(After training) They are ready to
go to the war.
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Although, some of them dead in the war.
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People know that it is a right idea to have BCATP,
because it trained 131,553 pilots, navigators, bomb
aimers, wireless operators, air gunners, and flight
engineers. (During WW2)
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(And Now) People thanks Canada that contributed a lot to BCATP.
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• (PIC. 1) Air Supremacy. N.d. Wikipedia. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 2) Flying Training School. August 1, 1940. Photograph. Uplands. Urbsite: UPLANDS AIRPORT. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 3) Farm and Airplanes. N.d. Canada. Activerain.com. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 4) Royal Canadian Air Force. 1939. Photograph. Canada. British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 5) Pilot Trainees with Curtiss. apr 1941. Photograph. CANADA, Toronto. The Canadian Encyclopedia. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 6) Uplands Pilots Training School. 1939. Photograph. Canada, Ottawa. Urbsite: UPLANDS AIRPORT. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 7) Pilots in WW2. june 1944. Photograph. Canada. WW2 Profile - Pilot Officer S D Thyagarajan. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 8) Pilots One Way Charlies. N.d. Photograph. America. Untold Stories of World War II. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 9) BCATP School. N.d. Canada. About.com Canada Online. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
• (PIC. 10) BCATP Memorial Gates at 8 Wing. N.d. Photograph. Trenton, Ontario. British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
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