Dogs of Air Training (Part 2)

In Part 1, we featured the three dogs that appeared in class photos from No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Sky Harbour, Goderich. Today is a somber post about a dog that was killed by one of the guards. On February 29, 1944, a letter ran in the Sky...

Dogs of Air Training (Part 1)

Military pets have long been a part of military (and Canadian) history, so we were pleased to find three local examples in the class photos from No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Sky Harbour, Goderich. Class 1 The first class dog of No. 12 EFTS was...

Beer addendum

As an addendum to last week’s New Year’s beer post, here is an advertisement for Black Horse Beer from the back cover of the first issue of Recte Volare, the magazine of Royal Air Force No. 31 Air Navigation School at Port Albert. The magazine includes...

Happy New Year (Beer)!

My favorite group of photos from the Henderson air training collection are the ones taken during the 1944 New Year’s Day meal at No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School, Sky Harbour, Goderich. Compared to all the individual head shots and formal class photos,...