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   From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 11:02:30 +1100, Phil McGregor wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:48:26 +1100, SolomonW    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>From what I understand, most of it was in this period run through Canada.   
   >>The pilots were trained in Australia, then sent to Canada for more training   
   >>and only then to battle. It was only in late 1940, that the first of these   
   >>pilots were in action but which stage the battle of Britain was over.   
   >   
   > True, to a point.   
   >   
   > The EATS was supposed to train 50,000 a year ... 28,000 in the   
   > Dominions and Colonies and the remaining 22,000 in the UK.   
   >   
   > So it was the UK cohort of the EATS who bolstered the pilot numbers   
   > consistently during the BoB.   
   >   
   > Phil McGregor   
      
      
   Reading the Wiki, I doubt that it was UK EATS, the first of these EATS was   
   sent to Britain in Oct 1941.   
      
   https://www.wikiwand.com/en/British_Commonwealth_Air_Training_Plan   
      
   "The United Kingdom was considered an unsuitable location for air training,   
   due to the possibility of enemy attack, the strain caused by wartime   
   traffic at airfields and the unpredictable weather, so the plan called for   
   the facilities in the Dominions to train British and each other's   
   aircrews."   
      
      
   I unclear where these pilots came from, but I think they may have been   
   existing pilots who were retrained. Reading the reports, it appears that   
   their lack of experience was a problem. Although Britain had more pilots   
   and planes in numbers at the end of the Battle of Britain, I doubt many   
   were of the same quality as at the start.   
      
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