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Re: Can anyone help with these RAF terms????
Posted by Tony on Fri Nov 15, 2002 04:11:14 PM
In reply top Can anyone help with these RAF terms???? posted by Lee Walsh on Thu Nov 14, 2002 10:39:17 AM
Lee,
Re:"No. 35 EFTS September 9, 1942
: Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. (Tiger Moth)"
Should not that be No.34 EFTS? No.35 was at Neepawa, Manitoba and not in the same Training Command as his next posting to Medicine Hat.
Tony
: Dear WIXer's
: Finally received the RAF service records for a missing Bri
: tish pilot that crashed in S. Quebec in Hurricane 5426. Lo
: ng story but the PMS finally sent them to me! Currently tr
: ying to make sense of some of this jarjon that appears in
: Sgt. H.K. Green service history. Can any help a rather fus
: trated researcher in finding out what the RAF mumbo-jumbo
: means????
:
: His past history reads as follows:
:
: Oxford Reserve July 3, 1941
: 1 A.C.R.C November 1, 1941
: A.C.D.W. January 3, 1942
: 9 I.T.W. January 21, 1942
: 51 Group Pool May 20, 1942
: A.C.D.C. June 17, 1942
: 31 R.A.F. P.D. July 11, 1942
: No. 35 EFTS September 9, 1942
: Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. (Tiger Moth)
: No. 34 SFTS November 21, 1942
: Medicine Hat, Alberta. (Oxford, Harvard)
: No. 1 (F) OTU ? Bagotville April 2, 1943
: Fighter training - Hawker Hurricane
: Missing and believed killed May 12, 1943
: Killed in action May 12, 1943
:
: Can make no sense of his history from July 3, 1941 to july
: 11, 1942.
:
: Can anyone help???
:
:
: Thanks
: Lee