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All 20,000 in Canada's great aerial army will be thoroughly trained before they see active service, as well as the 17,000 being prepared under the Emp(...)
All 20,000 in Canada's great aerial army will be thoroughly trained before they see active service, as well as the 17,000 being prepared under the Emp(...)

All 20,000 in Canada's great aerial army will be thoroughly trained before they see active service, as well as the 17,000 being prepared under the Emp(...)

Date8/17/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: All 20;000 in Canada's great aerial army will be thoroughly trained before they see active service; as well as the 17;000 being prepared under the Empire Air Project. And efficient training is one factor in which Britain has an edge. Here is a Camp Borden recruit in the revolving gun turret of an Avro-Anson training bomber learning to handle the deadly K gun. This gun can be swung and shot at almost any angle at high speed; a feature that is vital in the dog-fights that often occur in the air.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0003493F
To drag injured airmen from crashed planes or burning buildings, the training station firemen don asbestos crash suits and plunge into the blaze. Pictured is a ghost
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