Pilot Officer Brian Cox RCAF KIFA Flying Officer Francis Philip Coyle, RCAF pilot KIFASt Peters Road Cemetery, Charlottetown, PEI Row N-E Corner Plot 890 Grave 1. Flying Officer John Terrance King, RCAF KIFA Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Warriors Plot Sec K Grave 1919. Flying Officer Anthony George Mulholland, RCAF KIFA Flt Cdt Joseph Jacques Richard Ovide Plourde, RCAF KIFA Baron De Hirsch Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec Grave 2269; Plot 3412; Section M3412.
Cox, Brian (Pilot Officer)
Killed in Flying Accident 1956-May-18
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Service
RCAF
Unit
2 AOS- Air Observer School
Base
RCAF Stn. Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Pilot Officer
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Unit Desciption
2 AOS (2 Air Observer School)
Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.
NO2 AOS Edmonton
Formed at Edmonton, Alberta - 5 August 1940
RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Edmonton Alberta
Bomber Command MuseumRe-formed at Winnipeg, Manitoba 15 November 1955
Project 44 BCATP
Project 44 BCATP
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