Comments on: TRAINING ARMY AIR FIGHTERS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/training-army-air-fighters/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:22:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Blurgle http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/training-army-air-fighters/#comment-1052133 Blurgle Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:54:41 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/training-army-air-fighters/#comment-1052133 A lot of Army Air Corps pilots who signed up after Pearl Harbor (a few years after this article) were led to believe they would go to Randolph Field, but tens of thousands ended up in Western Canada. Many began their training at the Calgary Military Airport. The airport was located in the southwest, west of Crowchild Trail between what's now Flanders Road and about 54th Avenue SW. The airport was decommissioned in the 60s and all the runways are gone, but many of the taxiways are still used as streets. The farmer's market has put up old aerial photos of the airport and photographs of many of the young Canadian and American trainees who went through Calgary in the early 1940s. Only a handful of those young men survived the war. I live a few blocks east, and my house is built on the old wartime landfill where damaged and destroyed aircraft were buried. Last year I dug a propeller blade out of my side flower bed; someone at the local military museum (where it ended up) thinks it came from an Avro Anson. A lot of Army Air Corps pilots who signed up after Pearl Harbor (a few years after this article) were led to believe they would go to Randolph Field, but tens of thousands ended up in Western Canada. Many began their training at the Calgary Military Airport. The airport was located in the southwest, west of Crowchild Trail between what’s now Flanders Road and about 54th Avenue SW.

The airport was decommissioned in the 60s and all the runways are gone, but many of the taxiways are still used as streets. The farmer’s market has put up old aerial photos of the airport and photographs of many of the young Canadian and American trainees who went through Calgary in the early 1940s. Only a handful of those young men survived the war.

I live a few blocks east, and my house is built on the old wartime landfill where damaged and destroyed aircraft were buried. Last year I dug a propeller blade out of my side flower bed; someone at the local military museum (where it ended up) thinks it came from an Avro Anson.

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/training-army-air-fighters/#comment-1052099 jayessell Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:57:34 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/04/04/training-army-air-fighters/#comment-1052099 The formation of airplanes forming USA reminds me of.... http://graphics2.snopes.com/photos/military/graphics/randolph1.jpg but also of this... http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/randolph.asp The formation of airplanes forming USA reminds me of….

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but also of this…

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