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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Keith Willshaw"  wrote in message   
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   > On 13/01/2020 06:09, pyotr filipivich wrote:   
   >> Keith Willshaw  on Sun, 12 Jan 2020   
   >> 21:51:16   
   >   
   >>   
   >> As has been pointed out many times: RAF pilots shot down, were   
   >> shot down over their own country.  If was possible for you to get   
   >> shot   
   >> down in the morning and be back up in the afternoon.  Possible, I   
   >> don't know if that happened.   
   >> OTOH, Luftwaffe pilots got shot down mostly over enemy territory.   
   >> Even if they made it to the channel, they weren't going to be   
   >> getting   
   >> back to the mess anytime soon.  On going problem.   
   >>   
   >   
   > That was important but equally important in the long term was the   
   > inception of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at the   
   > beginning of the war. By Sept 1940 the first batch of pilots being   
   > trained in Australia, Canada and Rhodesia were graduating. One thing   
   > that is not well known is that Fleet Air Arm and RAF pilots were   
   > being trained in the still neutral USA. All of this was additional   
   > to the 7000 pilots trained in the UK by the end of August 1940.   
   >   
      
   Thanks, I didn't know that.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Forces_Cont   
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