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No 5 Bombing & Gunnery School
Course 50 – Wireless Air Gunner

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Course 50 Wireless Air Gunner, Squad II, No 5 Bombing & Gunnery School, Dafoe, Saskatchewan

Rear Row (left to right): Sergeant Hamilton, Flight Sergeant Spence, Sergeant Babuik, Sergeant Andriatz, Sergeant Delparte, Sergeant Friesen, Sergeant Brown

Front Row (left to right): Sergeant Carney, Sergeant Villeneuve, Pilot Officer Featherstone, Sergeant MacKay, Sergeant Mungham, Flight Sergeant Sundell

Students Arrived: 

Start Date:

Grad Dinner:

Graduation Parade:

Graduation Date: 7 April 1943

RCAF Station Dafoe

Nominal Role

  • ?. Carney
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Villeneuve
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Featherstone
    • Graduated Pilot Officer
  • ?. MacKay
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Mungham
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • Les Sundell
    • Graduated Flight Sergeant
  • ?. Hamilton
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Spence
    • Graduated Flight Sergeant
  • ?. Babuik
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Andriatz
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Delparte
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Friesen
    • Graduated Sergeant
  • ?. Brown
    • Graduated Sergeant

Instructors:

Course Strength

No of Personnel
Original Intake17
Transferred from previous course
Transferred to subsequent course1
Wastage
Killed in Flying accident
Total graduates16

Commissions

No of Personnel
Total

Postings

No of Personnel
No 1 Air Navigation School
Rivers, Manitoba
Wastage
Total

Notes

  • Wings were presented by
  • Course Graduates were members of the following Air Force’s:
    • 8 – RAAF students
    • 9 – RCAF students
  • Wastage remustered to:

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