Martin, James Douglas Hazelwood

Killed in Flying Accident 1945-02-09

Birth Date: 1922-August-09

Born:

Son of Douglas L. Martin and Agnes H. Martin, of Saint John.

Home: St John, New Brunswick

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

1 SFTS- Service Flying Training School

Base

Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/38065

Home

St John, New Brunswick

First Burial

Holy Cross Cemetery, St John, New Brunswick

Flying Officer Martin and Leading Aircraftman G.J. Powell (RAAF) were both killed when Harvard aircraft 2987 crashed at Big Bay Point, Ontario.

Canada Primary Source School Daily Diary Entry - 1945-02-09

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

www.findagrave.com

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

This incident involved multiple aircraft:

Harvard Mk.II Serial: 2987

All the above aircraft in the above list are referenced in this report.

Findagrave.com

Harvard 2987

Flying Officer Martin, James Douglas Hazelwood (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1945-February-09
Holy Cross Cemetery, St John, New Brunswick, Canada

Male Head

Leading Aircraftman Powell, Gordon John (RAAF)

Killed in Flying Accident
1945-February-09
St Marys Roman Catholic Cemetery, Barrie, Ontario, Canada

North American Harvard NA-26 NA-44 NA-61 NA-66 NA75 NA-76 NA-81

North American Harvard Mk. IV
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

The North American Harvard appeared in 1937, in response to a US Air Corps proposal for an advanced trainer. The first of 50 Harvard Mk. Is ordered by the Canadian Government were delivered to RCAF Sea Island, BC in July 1939. By early 1940, the Mk. II was being assembled in California with an all metal fuselage replacing the original tube and fabric structure. 1200 Mk. IIs were supplied from US sources, until Canadian built Harvards started being produced in 1941.

In August 1938, Noorduyn Aviation of Montreal farsightedly signed an agreement with North American, to build the Harvard under licence. When the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) came into being in December 1939, Noorduyn received its first orders and went on to produce nearly 2800 Harvard Mk. IIBs for the RCAF and the RAF, between 1940 and 1945. In Canada, Harvard Mk. IIBs were used as advanced trainers with the BCATP at fifteen Service Flying Training Schools across the nation. They helped pilots make to the transition from low powered primary trainers, like Fleet Finch or the de Havilland Tiger Moth, to high performance front line fighters such as the Spitfire.

At the end of WW II, although the RCAF retained the Harvard as a trainer, a large number of them were sold off to civilian operators. The RCAF soon regretted this, for by 1949 the Cold War with the Soviet Union was in full swing and the RCAF urgently needed trainers again. 100 T-6J Texans were leased temporarily from the USAF and a further 270 Harvards, the Mk. IV version, were ordered from Canadian Car & Foundry, Thunder Bay. The RCAF used the Harvard Mk. IV for a further fifteen years, before finally retiring it in 1966.

A total of 20,110 Harvards were built between 1938 and 1954, 3,370 of them in Canada. Countless numbers of privately owned Harvards are still flying today.

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Harvard Mk. IV was built by Canadian Car & Foundry, Thunder Bay, Ontario in late 1951. The aircraft saw service at four RCAF flying schools across the nation until it was sold to a civilian owner in 1965. It was the third aircraft to join the Museum after Dennis Bradley, Alan Ness and John Weir donated it in 1973.Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

YouTube Harvard Advanced Trainer

Wikipedia Harvard Advanced Trainer

unvetted Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page

1 SFTS (1 Service Flying Training School)

Graduates of the EFTS "learn-to-fly" program went on a Service Flying Training School (SFTS) for 16 weeks. For the first 8 weeks the trainee was part of an intermediate training squadron; for the next 6 weeks an advanced training squadron and for the final 2 weeks training was conducted at a Bombing & Gunnery School. The Service schools were military establishments run by the RCAF or the RAF.

There were two different types of Service Flying Training Schools. Trainees in the fighter pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 14 Aylmer, where they trained in the North American Harvard or North American Yale. Trainees in the bomber, coastal or transport pilot stream went to an SFTS like No. 5 Brantford where they learned multi-engine technique in an Airspeed Oxford, Avro Anson or Cessna Crane.

Currently the site of CFB Borden. Heliport and grass strip remains. CYBN