Attention!
Cette vidéo est disponible en anglais seulement.
Description
Mr. Duffley tells the stories of two different plane crashes at his base.
Louis Duffley
Louis Duffley est né à Quispamsis, Nouveau-Brunswick, le 14 février 1920. Ses amis et lui se sont joints à la Force aérienne et, en 1941, se sont rendus à Toronto pour recevoir leur équipement et être initié à la discipline élémentaire. De là, il s'est rendu à l'école technique de Belleville. Il y a terminé sa formation en 1942 et a été affecté à Moncton, Nouveau-Brunswick. Il y a passé un an et demi avant d'être envoyé à Dorval, Québec, pour suivre un autre cours. Deux mois plus tard, M. Duffley s'est joint au 165e Escadron, sur la côte Ouest. Finalement, il a été envoyé outre-mer en 1944, avec deux de ses copains de la Force aérienne.
Transcription
I can remember a couple of crashes of planes other than our own. I saw two Lightning aircraft, now that's an American fighter, quite a sophisticated aircraft for its time. It had two booms and a wing and a fuselage section. Two of them landed close together on our strip. It didn't appear, I was a couple hundred metres away, three hundred metres away, when they, the second one crashed into the first one. It didn't appear to do too much damage or hit too hard, but the pilot in the first aircraft must've been knocked unconscious, because the aircraft caught on fire he didn't get out. On another occasion I saw a, a Bolingbroke aircraft coming in on one engine and as he was about to land he cut the power on his one engine and lost control at that point. We had two Dakotas sitting at the end of the strip facing the strip and he crashed into them, killed him. He was killed the pilot, or the fighter, and also one of our people was sitting in the shade underneath the wing of one of our aircraft, he was killed. And the fire crash truck came out of course, we did have crash trucks, and we did have foam, because the fire department started to spray foam, the crash crew onto the mess that was happening and the ammunition started going off including a hole in the hose behind the firefighter. So anyhow, those are things you see but when you are young as I say it's exciting and not really, it's tragic, but that's the way it is.