Squadron: 1 SFTS (RCAF)
Start Date: 1940-10-25
Completion Date: 1940-10-25
Mission: Ferry Flight
Operation: unspecified
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Base: Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Crash City: Canada
Crash Specifics:
Crash Latitude: 0.00000000
Crash Longitude: 0.00000000
Crash Reason: weather
Flak Battery: five miles south of Larder Lake, Ontario
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War Diary Unavailable
6 Group Unavailable
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1 Training Command, Toronto, Ontario. Harvard II aircraft 2624 was being ferried from Winnipeg, Manitoba to 1 Service Flying Training School at RCAF Station Camp Borden, Ontario when it crashed five miles south of Larder Lake, Ontario with the loss of both aircrew aboard. The visibility was poor in misty conditions when the aircraft struck a tall spruce tree on high ground and crashed
Pilot, Sergeant H McDonald and Aero-Engine Mechanic, Leading Aircraftman W J Studds were both killed in this flying acciden. Harvard! The North American Trainers in Canada by David C Fletcher & Doug McPhail,
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