Paulson Bombing and Gunnery School, Abandoned Manitoba, Season 1
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2022
- The Abandoned Manitoba video series by Graham Street, Shaun Cameron, and Gordon Goldsborough visits ghost towns, vacant buildings, and other historic sites from Manitoba's past. Join us as we explore back roads to places that tell great stories about how things used to be, and how we have ended up where we are today.
In this video, we visit one of the former sites of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan where, during the Second World War, thousands of young people were trained to be pilots, navigators, bomb-aimers, wireless operators, and other members of flight crews.
This is where my uncle Victor Kissick trained to be a “tail end Charlie” tail gunner on a Lancaster Bomber. KIA March 12, 1943. Buried in Nijmegen, NL in Jonkerbos Cemetery. His name is on the wall at the Commonwealth Museum in Brandon.
I had read in some history book on the BCATP, that the runways were all shaped as triangles so that the novice pilot's would never have more than 45 degrees of cross wind to deal with, while either taking off or landing.
Gordon's grin while flying in the airplane pretty much says it all.👍
I know this place!!! I grew up in Dauphin!
Great episode Gordon!! Can’t wait to watch the next! Keeping my eyes peeled for the Kanuchuan episode!
This channel is excellent, glad I stumbled across it. Thanks from Calgary
Do Camp Hughes!
My Dad trained there! I have some wonderful pictures of him and some of the fellas there if there’s some way to share them? He also stowed away menu cards from their ships crossing and Christmas there, and other memorabilia. He was supposed to become a pilot but found out there he was colourblind-how funny not to know before then! He was awful to take shopping lol It was most likely a very lucky thing for him, in the end even if as a young man he was disappointed about not flying. I think he got over that once he’d been in Great Britain for a while.
We were stationed in Rivers in the early/mid 60's when I was a toddler so I remember very little of it.
Boy Gordon what a great episode you keep outdoing yourself 😂
I love aircraft and I didn’t know about this I glad you bring attention to the history of our province America has done a really good job bringing their rich history to the public and I enjoy it but it’s way more interesting when I am learning about my own back yard I thank you for your videos I think it should be shown in schools often! I think it would maybe reach some students who may not be enjoying what is being taught at the moment but if things like this would be taught it just might reach a child and cause he or she to start to love learning but
Very cool!
Such a great experience! Love the channel!
I think I seen one of those target back stops at the Yorkton SK airport. I believe it was a training base as well.
The back stops you’re talking about was to zero the guns on the aircraft and not for target shooting.
Great video, very interesting and informative!
Excellent Gord!
Thank You Gordon!!
That was so good on so many levels.
My uncle was one of the trainees from Manitoba, he trained at No. 12 Elementary Flying Training School.
He earned his wings and went on to train other pilots in Britain.
Sadly he was killed in a night training accident in 1944.
We owe so much to these young men.
I can't go across the prairies now without looking at old training bases.
Very interesting
I cut myself off there but I just think Canada could do more to make learning more fun and draw in every one rather than letting students fall through the cracks because that’s almost what happened to me until I was taught in my senior years that learning could actually be fun. But I guess I have gone off topic here but thanks for sharing this video I really enjoyed it!
No Music Credit! does anybody know who the jazz band were at the end?
Please do more old bases
What happened to the map on the website I cannot find as much as there used to I can no longer find paulson school or banks school where ny grandfather went too
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