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Wartime Flight School Sparked Medicine Hat boom
Nostalgia notes Medicine Hat growth after the No. 34 Service Flying Training School drew thousands of Commonwealth personnel during World War II. The 1941 project cost about 1.5 million dollars and transformed a stagnant economy with pilots, mechanics, and staff, from entry to postwar revival. Ronald Edmunds, a Welsh RAF recruit, trained there, recalling cold weather and rattlesnakes and enjoying Harvard flights.
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Medicine Hat Skies
Royal Air Force
No. 34 Service Flying Training School
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Philip Pype
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Britain
Canada
Department of Transport
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No. 34
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Gillian Slade
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