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The Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum and RCAF WWII Memorial (Hangar #1, Brandon Municipal Airport) will change to winter hours on September 1st being open from 1pm to 4pm, seven days a week. As a responsible member of the community, the Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum is actively encouraging social distancing and we are limiting the number of visitors inside the museum to 10 at one time. All visitors must wear a mask while touring the museum. For more information call the museum at 727-2444. www.airmuseum.ca Our Facebook Group Click for full-size image 
The Film Is Soon To Be Completed . . . Meanwhile. . . . . . SNEAK PEEK . . . PLAY THE SHORT 8-MINUTE PREVIEW VIDEO HERE https://youtu.be/v9c27MzTQvU
I have attached P/O Gomez name on our memorial wall and the circumstances of his death. The museum has provided video of the memorial and the museum along with archival photos. They briefly interviewed me over Zoom. ~ Stephen Hayter, Executive Director
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum 
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To commemorate the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan by telling its story, preserving its artifacts, and paying tribute to the thousands of Air Force personnel, who gave their lives during WWII. Winter Hours (September 1-April
30)
Summer Hours (May 1-September 30)
ADMISSION
Commonwealth Air Training Plan
Museum Inc.
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The CATP Museum is a non-profit, charitable organization founded and operated by volunteers. The Museum is dedicated to the preservation of the history of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and serves as a unique memorial to those airmen who trained and served, and especially those who died, while serving their country in the air war of 1939-1945. |
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THE LATEST CONTACT NEWSLETTER
To download the latest FALL
2020 Contact Newsletter click the following link
www.airmuseum.ca/contact/39.4_2020.pdf
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cover image HERE
OPEN AND READ THE FULL MAGAZINE
HERE
www.airmuseum.ca/contact/39.4_2020.pdf
The previous issues are still available in archive
via our CATP airmuseum.ca site on the Hillman Server
at:
www.airmuseum.ca/contact
Canada 150 Vignette
Series
150 WWII BCATP Stories with over 600 Photos
CATP MUSEUM RESEARCH PROJECT
Collated by Harry Hayward
A Searchable
PDF for BCATP WWII Daily Reports
Heritage Canada has provided, on line, jpg images
of the daily reports (RCAF Form R.65)
from the training schools of the BCATP.
Volunteers of the CATPM are downloading these images,
converting them to text using an optical character
reader,
proof reading them and providing a searchable PDF
to those interested.
The latest PDFs are for
#31 Bombing and Gunnery School, Royal Air Force, Picton,
ON
http://www.airmuseum.ca/BCATPsearch/31BGS_RAF_PictonON.pdf
#1 A.N.S. then #1 C.N.S., Rivers, MB.
http://www.airmuseum.ca/BCATPsearch/1ANS_1CNSriversMB.pdf
Come do your special shopping
at
The Tiger Moth Gift Shop!
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We have a wide variety of T-shirts, hats and hoodies
for all sizes
and plenty of aviation related toys, keychains and
mugs.
Open daily 1-4pm at the
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum,
Brandon Municipal Airport
204-727-2444
View full-size poster in PDF: HERE
AS
YOU WERE . . . Military Tributes: Monthly Webzine
READ ALL THE 2020 ISSUES HERE
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Halifax Bomber Missions Crash Scene Today |
Bomber Boys Ep. 1 Fighting Lancaster |
Fingal Mag 1944 Captains Clouds |
VIRDEN EFTS DAYS I Brandon SFTS |
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VIRDEN EFTS DAYS II #2 Manning Depot |
VIRDEN EFTS DAYS III Rivers #1 CNS |
VIRDEN EFTS DAYS IV Paulson #7 BGS |
SNOWBIRDS IN BRANDON CATP MUSEUM VIDEO |
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CATP MUSEUM ORIGINS THE PADRE by ROWLAND |
WWII TIMELINE SCREEN CAPTURES |
LEST WE FORGET ART - STORIES |
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CELEBRATING CATPM's 21st YEAR
ON THE WEB
1,000 Webpages and Print Publications
CATP
Volunteer Webmaster: William G. Hillman
hillmans@wcgwave.ca
BILL
and SUE-ON HILLMAN ECLECTIC STUDIO
Photos by Bill Hillman ~ Copyright
1999-2020
