Monday, January 15, 2007

Avro Anson being restored/Commonwealth Air Training Plan

By volunteers for the Greenwood Military Aviation Museum, Nova Scotia. The Anson was used at the start of World War II by RAF Coastal Command, later built in Canada and a stalwart of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

More on the BCATP--which Prime Minister Mackenzie King originally hoped would be Canada's major contribution to the war so sending a large army overseas could be avoided--here, here and here.

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