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WW11 No 2 FLYING INSTRUCTORS SCHOOL PHOTO.
Actual photo 24cm x 19cm. Photograph by Norman Brown & Co.
Original mounted photo inscribed as "No 2. Flying Instructors' School. No 13. F.I. COURSE"
According to the lady I purchased this from and whose father is featured the photo is from 1942.
This school included a lot of New Zealanders and was run as a British Commonwealth Training Plan at Station Vulcan in Alberta Canada. Construction of the airbase began in September, 1941 and the first school to operate at the site was No. 2 Flight Instructors School. It began operations in July 1942 but was not officially opened until October 30, 1942. At the opening ceremonies, W/C F.R. West, the commanding officer, spoke with pride of the huge effort required to build the facility, saying, "From a section and a half of prairie, which a year ago yielded some 40 bushels of grain to the acre, several crops of highly skilled flying instructors have been graduated. The initial class was made up of young men from all sections of the British Empire and the United States of America, who worked together with an excellent spirit. This performance set a pattern for succeeding classes." While at Vulcan, the school graduated some 25 courses of about thirty students each.
All the men in the photo are named.
Actual photo 24cm x 19cm. Photograph by Norman Brown & Co.
Original mounted photo inscribed as "No 2. Flying Instructors' School. No 13. F.I. COURSE"
According to the lady I purchased this from and whose father is featured the photo is from 1942.
This school included a lot of New Zealanders and was run as a British Commonwealth Training Plan at Station Vulcan in Alberta Canada. Construction of the airbase began in September, 1941 and the first school to operate at the site was No. 2 Flight Instructors School. It began operations in July 1942 but was not officially opened until October 30, 1942. At the opening ceremonies, W/C F.R. West, the commanding officer, spoke with pride of the huge effort required to build the facility, saying, "From a section and a half of prairie, which a year ago yielded some 40 bushels of grain to the acre, several crops of highly skilled flying instructors have been graduated. The initial class was made up of young men from all sections of the British Empire and the United States of America, who worked together with an excellent spirit. This performance set a pattern for succeeding classes." While at Vulcan, the school graduated some 25 courses of about thirty students each.
All the men in the photo are named.
