BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PLAN TRAINING OF PILOTS, NAVIGATORS AND OTHER AIRCREW FOR COMMONWEALTH NATIONS IN A SAFE PLACE EVENTUALLY 130,000 GRADUATES MACKENZIE-KING HOPED THAT THIS WOULD FORM THE BULK OF CANADA’S CONTRIBUTION REQUIRED FEWER PERSONNEL PUMPED INVESTMENT INTO CANADA DEVELOPED CANADA’S AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AIRPORTS BUILT ACROSS CANADA NORTH AMERICAN ‘HARVARD’ MADE UNDER LISCENCE IN CANADA

TRAINING OF PILOTS, NAVIGATORS AND OTHER AIRCREW FOR COMMONWEALTH NATIONS IN A SAFE PLACE

EVENTUALLY 130,000 GRADUATES

MACKENZIE-KING HOPED THAT THIS WOULD FORM THE BULK OF CANADA’S CONTRIBUTION

REQUIRED FEWER PERSONNEL

PUMPED INVESTMENT INTO CANADA

DEVELOPED CANADA’S AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY

AIRPORTS BUILT ACROSS CANADA

CANADIAN AIR OPERATIONS CANADA PROVIDED AIR FORCE PERSONNEL FOR BOTH THE ROYAL AIRFORCE (RAF) AND ROYAL CANADIAN AIRFORCE (RCAF) BUT THERE WERE NO COMPLETELY CANADIAN SQUADRONS UNTIL LATER IN THE WAR ALL TYPES OF AIRCRAFT AND MISSION WERE FLOWN, INCLUDING: FIGHTER, BOMBER, TRANSPORT, RECCONAISSANCE, ANTI-SUBMARINE BY END OF THE WAR CANADA HAD 48 SQUADRONS SERVING OVERSEAS BY THE END OF THE WAR CANADA HAD THE 4TH STRONGEST AIRFORCE AVRO ‘LANCASTER’, LARGEST AIRCRAFT BUILT IN CANADA IN WW2

CANADA PROVIDED AIR FORCE PERSONNEL FOR BOTH THE ROYAL AIRFORCE (RAF) AND ROYAL CANADIAN AIRFORCE (RCAF) BUT THERE WERE NO COMPLETELY CANADIAN SQUADRONS UNTIL LATER IN THE WAR

ALL TYPES OF AIRCRAFT AND MISSION WERE FLOWN, INCLUDING: FIGHTER, BOMBER, TRANSPORT, RECCONAISSANCE, ANTI-SUBMARINE

BY END OF THE WAR CANADA HAD 48 SQUADRONS SERVING OVERSEAS

BY THE END OF THE WAR CANADA HAD THE 4TH STRONGEST AIRFORCE

STRATEGIC BOMBING CANADA’S LARGEST CONTRIBUTION WAS IN THE BOMBING OF GERMANY DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN GERMANY HAD BOMBED BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN TARGETS IN BRITAIN IN THE ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE THAT FOLLOWED BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN TARGETS IN GERMANY WERE TARGETED RESULTING IN OVER 1 MILLION DEATHS WITH LITTLE BENEFIT TO THE WAR EFFORT IN ONE NIGHT OF BOMBING OVER DRESDEN, MORE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN EITHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS IN JAPAN

CANADA’S LARGEST CONTRIBUTION WAS IN THE BOMBING OF GERMANY

DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN GERMANY HAD BOMBED BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN TARGETS IN BRITAIN

IN THE ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE THAT FOLLOWED BOTH MILITARY AND CIVILIAN TARGETS IN GERMANY WERE TARGETED RESULTING IN OVER 1 MILLION DEATHS WITH LITTLE BENEFIT TO THE WAR EFFORT

IN ONE NIGHT OF BOMBING OVER DRESDEN, MORE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN EITHER OF THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS IN JAPAN