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EXETER - "They'd have lost the war without radar," said Exeter resident Doug
Knowles, a former Royal Canadian Air Force radar mechanic who instructed at the
RCAF Radar and Communications School in Clinton.
War efforts of 5,000 radar mechanics including Knowles were finally recognized
at the the Second World War Radar Reunion held in Calgary last summer. Partly due
to the secrecy of their operations, there was no official record of their contributions.
Now secret policy and administrative files have become available, thanks to two
former radar mechanics and as a result some light has been shed on the role of these
men
The technicians worked under a complete security blackout and while they item
RCAF personnel they served with every branch of the services on every fighting
front from the Battle of Britain to D-day.
Knowles was among these mysterious individuals to receive a long overdue
certificate of appreciation at the Radar Reunion.
On completion of his training he served in Ireland and India before being
transferred back to Canada and his biggest wartime challenge - becoming a radar
instructor in Clinton teaching American forces personnel about new
equipment and technology. Clinton's radar school was the only one
of its kind in Canada during the war.
"Canadians and volunteers from other countries served as radar
mechanics in every theatre of war," states a certificate given to
radar mechanics. "Then, their service was highly secret; now, their
remarkable contribution to the winning of (the Second World War)
can be told."
You are a young boy just twenty-one
Yet in your hands you hold a gun
You know your task is to kill
Even though it is not your will
You know not why you fight;
Whether it is wrong, or it is right
But war will always carry on;
Until all the hate is done and gone.
by Gregory I. Peebles
when attending Grade School
Watld War 11 veteran John Webster was selling poppies at ms's Valu -mart in Exeter last
week.
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