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Towards the end of January 1943, we were posted to Initial Training School (I.T.S.), Edmonton as No. 2 Aircrew Squadron, Course 73. We were billeted at Athabasca Hall on the University campus, and took many courses at the old Normal School (which I had attended a few years previously) and the Arts Building. Instruction was given in maths, geography, navigation, wireless and physical education. I can remember being in the top floor at the Normal School receiving messages being sent by light flashes instead of by keyboard from the top of St Joe鈥檚 College. We were not really too interested until the sender flashed the letters JOKE, then everyone would pay close attention and get it.
Squad drill test at the old University Drill Hall was a schmozzel; each student had to put three flights (about a hundred men) through their paces. I really had the boys climbing the walls with my drill orders. The powers that be must have had pity on me as I did graduate, had a hangover following the Squadron Dance on April 29th. After two weeks leave, I was posted to No. 2 B and G (Bombing and Gunnery) School at Mossbank, Saskatchewan as a potential bomb aimer.

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