Monument commémorative de l’École élémentaire de pilotage no 12

SKY
HARBOUR

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN
1939 - 45

12 Elementary Flying Training School RCAF.
North of this marker was the above base of the
BCATP of World War II, inaugurated December
17th, 1939. From 360 schools, on 281 Canadian
sites such as this, graduated 131,553 aircrew, over
200,000 ground crew and Air Women, of the Air
Forces of Canada, British Commonwealth and Allies,
including many American volunteers in the RCAF.

Canadian BCATP graduates staffed most of these
360 schools, manned 78 RCAF active combat
squadrons and served in most RAF and Commonwealth
Combat squadrons in action in all theatres of war.

THE LANCASTER X MEMORIAL

This Canadian built Lancaster X, wingspan 102 feet,
power 4, 1400 h.p. Rolls Royce Packard Merlin 224
engines, was manned by a crew of 7. Combat weight
32 tons, cruising speed 220 m.p.h. for ten hours
with 6 tons of bombs. Donated by Branch 109 Royal
Canadian Legion, the Township of Colborne, the Town
of Goderich and the County of Huron. Lancaster FM
213 is dedicated to the memory of those who were
killed or went missing.

Dedication Day, Battle of Britain, Sunday, September 15, 1968