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Mr. Wilson rues the fact that many of Canada’s brightest young men were lost lost while serving with Allied Air Command, and speculates about what their contributions to Canada could have been.
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Oh, you don’t think of them daily, but sometimes you think back and figure what wonderful people they were and something else that people don’t realize that to get into the air force, you had to have a grade 12 education. Well today, a grade 12 education would be the equivalent of a university education and here was the elite of Canada in the air force and just been slaughtered, many of them, and we lost a terrific number of first class Canadians in the air force. There were 17,000 air force killed in World War II, and I sit back, and most of them from the ages of 19 to 25, and I think back and what a wonderful contribution they could have made to Canada if they were alive and leading the country today. We missed something great by losing them.