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the georgetown herald wednesday evening august 27th 1941 i the british commonwealth air training plan i one of a series of articles written mteudj far weekly newspaper by hnrh tcmphn editor of ue form newibeeom bombing and gunnery specialized occupations this is the tenth and last of the aeries of stories about the training of pilots and observers in the ecaf under the british commonwealth air training- plan written for the weekly newspapers of ontario and distribu ted through the cwna until i visited the jarvis bombing and gunnery school i had supposed that the initial training school at egllnton was the most interesting place the royal canadian air force had to show its visitors at sgllntqn tine doctors now disguised as flying officers carry on scletnlfic expert ments in low pressure chambers at tach electric wires to the skull to test the brain waves and send men and materials into chambers where cold winds blow at 40 below zero there s nothing like that at jarvis science and mathematics and inven tion have combined to produce the wonders that are kept locked up in special buildings at the bombing and gunnery school but they have to do with the arts of war and destruction rafter than medicine and healing after a convention in hamilton in may a group of editors and their ladies spent an afternoon at a wings parade at jarvis school and they saw the buildings and learned something of the training methods they mar velled at the beautifully furnished recreation rooms they had fleeting glances of bomb stgrits in the noses of falrey battle bombing planes or noticed the loads of small practice problems arising from it fuses and carriers use of flares theory of sighting machine guns tracer bulleta cannon guns gunnery tactics types of turrets and aircraft recognition that doesn t mean much to most of us but it sounds like a heavy course of study to be mastered in six weeks camera guns save ammunition first practice with actual machine guns is on the 2syaxd range viokers- guns are used there though they are now outdated and brownings are used fou more advanoed work the machine gunners tand inside a long building open at the front and shoot at targets with bursts of fire eight to fifteen bullets at a time inside anotlier building in separate rooms are power operated machine gun turrets which give the british gunners an advantage early in the war they were completely equipped but the actual guns had been re moved and replaced by dummy guns which shot a ray of light at a tiny oerman plane which moved against a painted sky a student was banging away at it and every time he scored a hit a bell rang amusement parks have similar devices without the tur ret which is the important part the young man a the camera guns was doing fairly well scoring hits with about half his shots dials on a nearby desk indicated exactly what he was doing he finished and i climbed up inside the turret a table lowered over my knees and a lever at my side brought up a seat and wedged me in like a sardine in a can apparently i was a fixing the bombs in the racks under the wings of a plane royal canadian air force photograph bombs attached to the wings they saw the drogue planes come in and drop the drogues or targets riddled with machine gun bullets and they felt grateful for an insight into the training of the student observers in the rci and kindred air force of the empire really what they saw was only a fraction of what the student seea i was at jarvis school with the other editors in may i returned in august and was admitted to the various buildings where the doors are kept locked and few are privileged to enter i was allowed to use the power driven machine gun turrets of actual fighting planes i was initiated into the mysteries of the bombsight as far as was possible in an hour or so i was offered a flight with one of the machine gunners out over the water of nearby lake erie and i saw the inside workings of the bombing teacher a machine that literally a- mazed me difficult course or studies group captain g e wait is the commanding officer at the jarvis school after a cordial welcome he turned me over to flying officer g t johnson with instructions that i was to be shown everything and al lowed to try out the various macitnes used in training and flying officer johnson literally carried out those instructions if i didn t leam every thing about bombing and the use of machine guns it was because one can t do that in an afternoon first we went over the details of the course of study together it was yv the curriculum of a university course in engineering with its varl ous formulae and its applied math ematics i wondered uhat students could pick it up unless they had been particularly good in mathematics in thdr high school days but the fljing officer said that few failed those woo did not understand the theories could memorize the formulae study included the theory of bombing trajectory angles use of the vector attachment for bomb- sights when aiming at moving targets setting bombsighte low and high level bombing wind drift and oversize to make a good gunner five or six switches set the machin ery in motion and i looked through a small reflecting sight already de scribed in an earlier story with my left hand i worked a stick similar to those that control small planes a touch of my thumb on a button on top of the lever started the machine gun but the mechanism was too fast for me i got in a tew shots but i scored not a hit another turret was of somewhat different pattern handle bars like those on a bicycle controlled the motion a turn to right or left made the turret turn and by lifting up or pressing don the machine gun as moved actual practice with machine guns is carried out over lake erie the planes used are fairey battles used earlier in the war as medium bomb ers some are drogue planes paint ed with yellow and black stripes as a warning to other planes that jhey are trailing behind them a long steel wire at the end of the wire dangles a drogue or cloth target cylindrical in shape and about eight feet long the machine gunners go up two at a time in another plane of similar make an experienced pilot sit up in front the two gunners side by side back near the tall where it is rather bumpy the planes follow a definite schedule meeting the drogue plane out over the lake and firing in a cer tain area bullets in the machine guns are dipped in paint those fired by one gunner leave red holes the other blue that cuts the flights in half and requires less targets the drogue plane circles back over the field and drops its drogue releasing another at the end of the wire to take its place flights of the planes with the gun ners take only about ten minutes bombs and borabslghts bombs and bombing have become important in this war much might be written about thean the bombs are of several types depending on the purpose for which they are in tended they tend to increase in size weight and destruetiveness some explode on contact others go through the roof and explode inside the build ing or a ship there are bombs that pierce armor before exploding the bombs can be adjusted for various purposes in nose and tall rombs are carried on racks underneath the wjngs inside the fusllage or in other places depending on the type of the bombing plane they are released electrically by pulling a little lever much has been heard about bomb sights in recent months the bomb- sight is an elaborate instrument used to ensure that the bomb will land on or near the target in the early days of the last great war bombs were simply dropped over the edge by the pilot planes moved slowly and fairly low even at that many of these first bombs probably landed a mile from the place that they were intended to strike a modem bombsight is a most com plicated instrument there axe same ten adjustments not only the height the plane above the ground the speed at which it is traveling the direction and velocity of the wild affect the fall of the bomb but ever the temperature the bombsight is covered with knobs and dials and scales when all these have been adjusted the ob server watches the landscape through an eyepiece he sees it apparently moving dawn between two pairs of wires with colored beads at inter vals along them at last the railway station factory or whatever the tar get happens to be appears between two tiny pointers the observer pulls a lever and the bomb starts on its way it may be 20 seconds before it hits and another 10 before it explodes the bombing teacher students learn to operate the bombsight with the aid of a teacher which is one of the most interesting and ingenious machines i eer saw it is contained in a specially built three storey building and kept locked i watched flying officer johnson adjust the bombsight after drawing lines across the face of its compass and making calculations then i lay on my stomach and looked through the sights we were in the gallery of the building upstairs intricate projectors designed by a british in ventor adjusted for altitude wind speed and so on ground away down below me the landscape of the enemy country moved past i could see its farms the towns and cities the line of the coast i chose a factory in the distance watched it come down be tween the wires and as it reached the pointer pulled the trigger for some twmtj seconds the time it ujok that bomb to drop the scenery moved past then it stopped and a white light showed where the bomb hao landed actual bombing is done over lake erie small practice bombs attached under the wings of the fairey battl- are aimed at a red raft from heights well over a mile a puff of smoke goes up as the bomb hits the water observers on shore watch the puffs of smoke use some simple trigo nornetry and plot the places where the bombs drop the student marks where he thought the went the best target hangs in the conference room over it is a sign beat this and yours will hang here instead also no doubt the owner of the target will head his class at the next wings parade the end william foster died suddenly in toronto spent most op life in chel tenham district a resident of cheltenham and ac ton for many years william foster passed away suddenly at his home 74 deleware avenue toronto on mon day august 11 to from a heart at tack he was in his 70th year he was born on the 6th line west chinguacousy and was a son of the late thomas foster and sarah tus- hlngham foster for many years he managed a stone quarry on his farm at cheltenham he later moved to ac ton and prior to moving to toronto six years ago he operated a farm at ner val station he is survived by his widow the former jennie sharpe eight daughters and a son one son roy predeceased hhn three years ago in march the family are mrs martha shaw to ronto mrs george burt pearl georgetown mrs thomas lock flor ence toronto mrs edward lucy daisy toronto mrs allan mccul- lough mildred ouelph mrs char les flint verna toronto tushing- ham dorothy and georgina at home also surviving are lour sisters mrs allen mcpherson aoton mrs barah ferguson stouffvllle mrs william sharpe cheltenham and mrs james sharpe campbell s cross and six grandchildren the funeral was held on wednes day august 13th with a private ser vice at the ueyerseulott funeral parlours toronto conducted by rev l i hunter followed by a public ser vice at cheltenham united church conducted by rev norman mbleod brampton many beautiful floral tributes mark ed the high esteem in which mr fos ter waqhekl the cheltenham unit ed church choir sang during the ser vice the pallbearers were six very dear friends thomas lyons w h henry william fraser george harris hugh caldwell and silas olarridge interment was in the family plot in cheltenham cemetery photographer watch and see the birdie modern child pay attention to your exposure or youll ruin the plate fall fair dates toronto canadian exhibition elmira duriam tavistock almonte belleville 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