Any Train at R.C.A.F Claresholme in 1952?

[grimerz]

May I ask: Did anyone in this forum carry out flying training at Claresholme during 1952 please?
regards
grimerz :)

[flyndad]

Didnt train there but I often fly down there now.

[India Four Two]

I didn't train there either, but when I first flew there in 1972, it probably didn't look a lot different than it did 20 years earlier, except for the lack of Harvards :)

[RobbieJr]

I was 5 years old in 1952 when My dad, mother and I moved our trailer from Calgary, Alberata to the RCAF base near Claresholm. The following year when I was 6 years old we were the first family to move into a house for married quarters. I lived ther for 5 years - the longest I lived anywhere until I moved to Kincardine, Ontario 26 years ago.

My dad was a flight engineer who went to England in 1936 to escape the North American depression and join the RAF. After spending 9 years fighting both the Nazis and Japanese in Norway and from Bombay, India he tranferred to the RCAF in 1945 and came back to Canada.

I have a lot of fond memeories of the RCAF base in Claresholm. That is where I started school, ice hockey, piano lessons, baseball and golf. When I went back to that base about 20 plus years ago I nearly cried when I saw the old house gone and just a few old hangers left. That had been my home and it was gone.

Robbie Jr

[saudipc-9]

I did some sky diving there a few years back.