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The Huron Expositor, 1968-09-26, Page 11TIRE INN roffi4.4440,, MOO ,SOAF9RTit , IntreSt * Towl, "D.WOMug* * Ail CIUSIS .leff*** POPIPrilr' *• Sununar,...coitagas • Anrchaa. $09911$, 1110111 Extended coverage rind, smoke,. water damage, idling objeet-%. etc. 13 also available. AGTS: Jaines Key�,t 1,, Seaferth; 4‘..1-ean_ie Tia Seaforth; Wm. Leiner, Jr» .1441flicabOr0; Selwyn Baker, 13russelst • Heroic) Seinirea, CUntotGorge fAWile, Dublin; Donald 0-. Eaten, Seafort.h. 6 • • 4 • • • 'PO:ES - 141R9114 EXPOSITOR Seaforth PHONE 527-0240 . the - energyfood, for todays boys & girls Order Today MAPLE LE -AF DAIRY Phew 527-0990 -- • Free -Delivery Dilry Phsclucts are available at -•1. • GERALD'S' SUPERTEST STATION •„ Sundays, Holidays, Everyday Maple Leaf Phone 52M810 : Seaforth ^ ri fife Lanes t. IfiORiat IPCPCSI ARNOLD STINNISSEll GROUP $,:,,:cpicatitiliss044"10; mmooTh • •*fr. ecognitoR of the contribu- flop which if mon County made to the British. ,COMmonwealth Air Trang-plan and --the suc- cessful <Memo Of World War II as well as the role which the Lancaster bomber played in the Allied air; effort ,was given Sun. day' afternoon before thousands of speetators at Sky Harbour Airport at•Goderich. MO, . -Gen. A. C. Hull of, Tren-` ton, Air Officer commanding Transport Command, recalled the history of the Lanesquad- rons. as a monuntent "cerainern- orating the *Craft and flmgr crews was itifireiled by Harold Chapaberd, president of Branch 109 Royal Canadian Legion, Goderich and Col. E. W. Ryan commander of the Canadian Perces Base, Clinton. Murray Gaunt, PAPP (L— Huron-Bruce) and Ken Mac- Pherson a the' department of public records and archives, Toronto, unveiled the plaque to the Sky Harbour school. Many came to see the Red Knight, Capt. David A. Curran of Kingston, fly his Canadian Forces tutor jet- through 12 minutes of loops and dives. The show by the Red Knight was the last on hik41968 itinerary of 10 demonstrations which took place across Canada. Sunday's airshow also includ- ed -fly pasts by three Canadian Forces Otter aircraft, three U.S. Air Force flying boxcars, a. U.S. Air Force- B-57jet bomber and an executive jet aircraft called the Falcon. The last serviceable Lancaster XFM213 i.,Vas declared.- surplus by the rt.C.A.r. and purchased by the Royal Canadian Legion, Goderich. It 'is exhibited in con- junction with Huuron County Museum, And is, a memorial to the Arroed, Services and Bomb- " • er.. crews trained' in Huuron • County during World War 11. The bomber is located on a site adjacent to Sky Harbour, No. 12 E.F.T.S. R.C.A.,F., a base ,• of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan of World War 11 -at Goderich. • total of _17,378 Lancastefs were built, hid -tiding 430 at Vic- • tory Aircraft, Toronto. Twelve „IICA.F. squadrons eventually • flew iancasters, eleven squad- rons as members of famous 6 For a big headstart on your next year's crop, plowdown this fall with C-1Ir.L Fertilizers For high -yield crops of corn or processing vegetables in 1969. plowdown this fall With the right C -I -L Fertilizers. Recommendations Fall Materials Fertilizer Plan On all types of soils. use C -I -L Murlate of Potash. 200 to 250 lbs. per acre. 0 crop refuse is present, add 200 lbs. of amporilum nitrate to aid decomposition. Compound Fertilizer Plan On medium to heavy soil. or on any soil with crop refuse such as corn stalks or straw, use C -I -L 15-15-15, 400 lbs. per acre. When breaking up a legume meadow., use C -I -L 0-20-20. 400 lbs. per acre. C -1-L SPREADING SERVICES, TECHNICAL SERVICE Call yOur local C -I -L Dealer for complete' spreading services truck ,spreaderS, pull -type spreaders or broadcasters. For assistance with special soil problems, ask your Dealer to contact a Technical Service Representative., ° GET A RIG BEADSTAR7 WITH EirD FALL PLOWDOWN FERTILIZERS SEAFORTif (R.C.A.F.) Group of R.A.r, Parri- ber Command during World War 11, from Yorkshire bases. Lan - casters delivered 608,612 tenS of bombs and sea mines and, is es- timated 40% of the Lancasters were lost or missing in action. The bombers carried "seven .crew, members; Pilot, nolgator, al; bomber; flight engineer, wireless' aiz punter and two air gunners. Some specifications or the Lancaster: Wingspan 10.2% )Len- gth 69', Loaded Weight- -84,5,00r lbs., Fuel Load 2,150 Imperial,. Gallons, Endurance 101Mitr5 at 220 M.P.H., Armardent 8 maeli-. ine guns, 500 rounds per go, Bomb load 12.,000 lbs., rreng from 4. lbs. incendary to 8,000 lbs. demolition bombs. Special Lancasters could carry one -12,- 000 lbs. "Tall Boy" or the Ulti- mate, •one 22,000 lbs. "Grand Slam" deep penetration bomb. Lancasters were Simi for twenty years after the war by R.C.A.F. Maritime Patrol, from such widely separated bases as Vancouver, Resolute - Bay, Key West, Florida, St. Eval Cornwall and Gibralter, on anti‘submar- ine patrol. Secondly they photo- graphed and aerosurveyed, three and one half million square miles of Canada's Northland and Arctic Islands. Thirdly they ful- filled vital work in long -range search and rescue Operations... On September 1, 1939, the German Wehrmacht crossed the Polish border and two days lat- er Britain and France 'declared war on the Third Reich. Canada' entered the war on September 10. Poland, treacherously attack- • ed on her eastern frontier a week later by th0Soviet armies, wan 'soon crushed, and there began on the • western front the uneasy half -year's quiet of the "phony war": Fortunately the inevitability of large-scale aerial warfare was widely recognized, and on -Sep- tember 26 it had been proposed by the United Kingdom that- the Commonwealth governments es- tablish airtraining facilities safely removed from the prob. • able theatre of war. Canada was the logical host, and an agree- ment was signed in Ottawa On December 17, 1939, by repres- entatives of the United King - cloth, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Thus there came into being the British Common- wealth Air Training Plan, to be administered by Cana!,•ktethrough the Royal Canadian Air Force with financial assistance from the other Commonwealth mem- bers and m'aterial from Britain. Training schools for pilots and air observers were found rea- dy made among Canada's many flying clubs and private air- fields. Initially the Plan entail- ed the establishment of 58 schools for aircrew, the first of which opened at the end of Ap- ril, 1940. By the end of Septem- ber, 1941, all but three were in operation, including 21 elemen- tary flying training schools ra- ther than the 13 at first envis- aged. Meanwhile the blitzkrieg had struck at Denmark, the Ne- therlands,..Belgium, Norway and - France, and at the end of June, 1940, Britain stood alone in Eur- ope. There Were those 'who would have discontinued the Air Training Plan and thrown its aircraft and personnel again- st the expected invasion of Brit- ain, but calmer minds prevailed and.the Plan relnained in force. Aniong the ever-increasing number of graduates were men who had escaped from countries overruun by the Axia, and prior to the attack on Pearl Harbour, nearly 1,000 United States Citi- zens p,assed through training un- der the Plan. The entry of Japan into 'the- war made it obvious that the Plan must continue be- yond the expiry date originally set—March 31, 1943— and it was accordingly extended to March 31, 1945. At -the same time the number of schools was increased , and 27 Canadian -based Royal Air Force units were added to the organization. At its peak, towards the end of 1943, the Plan included 97 flying schools and 184 ancillary units, having a total staff of well over 100,000. These establish- ments were contributing' more than 3,000 trained aircrew per month to' the air forces of the Commonwealth. Indeed, the plan was se successful that through 1944 it Was possible to reduce the intake of students and to begin *sing some schools. During the 59 months of its extstance the Platt graduated 131,553 air crew and more than • 170,000 ground crew • and air women. Of the aircrew, nearly 73,000 served in the R.C.A.F.'s , 78 combat squadrons and with most Commonwealth squadrons. There were 32 air training schools in Ontario, including No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School at Goderich,1where the historical plaque iS located. Like many of its sister establish- ments, Sky Harbour, was a pri- vate airfield before the school Opened there on October 14, 1940, The aircraft chiefly used Was the "Tiger Moth",. a sturdy biplane et Web. the School had aS bird* AS 71 in Service at peak of operations. One of the most distinguished .graduates of the Training Plan completed his training at No. 12 E.F.T.S. in July 11, 1941. This was Flight -Lieutenant D. X. Hor- nell, who in July, 1944 was post- humously awarded, the Victoria Cross for his gallantry during and after an attack on a German submarine the previous month. No; 12 E.F.T.S. graduated 1,304 R.C.A.F. and 326 R.A.F. pilots before being turned over on October 1, 1943, to the Fleet .Air Arm It was finally closed on July 14, 1944. Sunday's cere- monies commemorated a scheme whose graduates played a role which can only be termed vital to the Allied effort of the Sec- ond World War, and 11,000 of whom in R.C.A.F. service alone gave' their lives in that conflict. Canadians may be justly proud of these men and women, and of the fact that their country played bost to a Plan without which the defeat of the Axis might not have been possible. 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