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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....the CBC or Canadian Broadcasting Company
Along those same lines, I have a very interesting little booklet titled The Atlantic Bridge published in London in 1945 by His Majesty's Stationery Office. I paid a nice little price for it to an Air Canada pilot who fetched it back across the pond for me when I was working in Alberta a few years ago. I'd have to reread it to recall the details, but it's quite an interesting read and "jumpng the pond was no small feat then." These men played a vital role in the war effort.
Yep they did good work and through no fault of their were not allowed to play in the big leagues. But thats enough of my PC'ness . Ferrying an aircraft in the UK with its small area or flying aircraft around the continental US with its airways and navaids is a whole different game then what these guys did and the difference is hugeThere's also a book entitled, "Spitfire Women of World War II," by Giles Whittell, and there's been a TV programme with (I think) the same title. Before going on about PC, it pays to remember that the idea of women flying warplanes was unthinkable, 70 years ago, and 15 of them, including Amy Johnson, died doing the work. The prejudice, against them, was incredible; their boss had to fight hard to get them equal pay, and even to be allowed to wear trousers.