Always Wanting to Sky Dive!

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Always Wanting to Sky Dive!

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I always wanted to sky dive. My mother said, “No, you're not sky diving as long as you live here!” So when I went to France I had a chance to get involved because France was a big country into sky diving and as soon as you became a sky diver in France under, with their license you got recorded by the military that you were a sky diver or a jumper because they knew they could conscript you into their service and use you but as a North American you couldn't do that. If you were a French national you were. Anyway, when I went with the Sky Hawks that was a different thing all together because I was working with the airborne and I got involved in a lot of things and when they got their colors, the commandos in ‘73 I think it was, yeah ‘73 or something I was back with them and did their jump with them. A big jump, five or six hundred people in the air, and it was quite amazing, so I got to do that. And I got to jump at that time with a couple of the guys from the Devil's Brigade who were brought in, they were old jumpers from World War Two, so I got to meet a couple of them, they were good, they still jumped.

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Mr. Batt shares his experience and memories of sky diving with the Sky Hawks and the Devil's Brigade.

Gordon Batt

Mr. Gordon Batt was born November 25, 1945 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. After finishing high school, Mr. Batt enrolled in the air cadets and decided to join active service with the Air Force as a result of his love of flying. He spent a great deal of his military career in Canada, but spent time overseas in France with ground crew operations as an armament systems technician and participated in operations with the CF104, Hercules and Argus aircraft. Mr. Batt participated in a fascinating sport as a sky diver performing with the Sky Hawks in several air shows in conjunction with military service and held rank as a qualified parachutist. This love for sky diving is one of his most memorable accomplishments. After his decision to leave the military, Mr. Batt opened his own retail business and eventually sold that and accepted a position as commissionaire in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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