7 OTU- Operational Training Unit (RCAF) - Debert NS

No. 7 Operational Training Unit, Royal Canadian Air Force, at RCAF Station Debert, Nova Scotia: the Debert training unit taken over by the RCAF in 1944 from No. 31 Operational Training Unit RAF and renumbered No. 7. It trained Mosquito and Bolingbroke crews; thirteen casualties are recorded with it between November 1944 and June 1945. A different unit from No. 7 (Coastal) Operational Training Unit RAF, which was in Britain (Limavady, then Haverfordwest). The start date, 1 July 1944, is ESTIMATED: the month in which CASPIR's record of No. 31 OTU RAF at Debert ends.