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