Wings for Victory – The Remarkable Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada

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Title: Wings for Victory – The Remarkable Story of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canada

Author: Dunmore, Spencer

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 1994

ISBN: 0771029276

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 399 pages

Comments: The story of the organization in Canada during WWII, that trained over 130,000 air crew for the Commonwealth war effort. Many Australian aircrew trained as part of the Empire Air Training Scheme.

The Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War.

It remains the single largest aviation training program in history and was responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with the Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the war.