1 BFTS Terrell Texas.
Our quarters were very good, sitting side by side in the lavatories were a bit of a shock, but it was friendly! The food was excellent and everybody messed together, the Wingco queueing up like everybody else. The American Cadets told us horror stories of their "Pre Flight" but we soon got them using Chritian names and swinging their arms!
My first instructor on the Stearman was a real Southern Gentleman called Mr Barr and he had us, his four pupils , over to his house in Dallas to meet his family and to get to know us. Most of us were "adopted" by families in Terrell or Dallas and that lasted in my case for many years.
The Stearman had to be "wound up" to start and used the grass part of the airfield. It seemed a handful after the Tiger Moth, but was indeed a lovely aeroplane. We used a satellite about ten miles from Terrel called Boykin, so the call would be "off of Boykin.