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Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)

This section features first hand accounts of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) personnel who trained in Alberta under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). 

Included are stories by Bill Belford, who explains some of the particularities of flying in Alberta; William de Boos, who writes a letter to his mother; and Hugh Phillip Walmsley Johnston, who describes the long and arduous boat trip to Canada.