These modern fighters were placed on ships and arrived one or two at a time at Sea Island. I fighters off the production line in U.K.

In February 1939, the Canadian Liberal Government began to see the threat from Germany and ordered 24 modern RAF Hurricane Mk. Hundreds of Canadians answered the call, sailing for England and a new career in the growing RAF, while the RCAF pilots in Calgary could not even maintain normal training hours in their ancient aircraft. In the same year, the Royal Air Force began advertising for trained pilots to come to England and receive a Short-Service Officers Commission to fly with the RAF.

They were equipped with six obsolete Siskin bi-planes of post WW I vintage, and this was the new total fighter protection for all of Canada. Eleven months later the new squadron was ordered to move West to a new constructed airfield located at Calgary, Alberta. 1 fighter Squadron RCAF at Trenton, Ontario, for protection of Canada. On 21 September 1937, the Government formed No. He believed Hitler would do good for Germany and not cause any world problems. In 1937, King traveled to Germany and met Hitler, the only North American head of state to do so. King was the most dominant Canadian political leader from 1920 to 1948, but was reluctant to enter war unless Great Britain were attacked. Mackenzie King did little to change Canadian Forces, which remained small, and poorly trained, mostly due to 18 years of reduced defence spending. The Canadian Liberal Government under P.M. In 1936, the British Government began to prepare itself for possible war, forming the RAF Volunteer Reserve, which trained 6,646 pilots by 1 September 1939. In the following six years the world watched and waited as Germany became the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship, based on nazism. In 1933 Austrian-born, German politician, Adolf Hitler was appointed the new Chancellor of Germany. British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada.Flight Lieutenant Gordon McNab Templeton.Chris McLean's Collection of WWII photos.Pierre Lagacé on Intermission – Allan Wom… Pierre Lagacé on Milton Caniff and the “W… Pwlangebeeke on Milton Caniff and the “W…

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