The Air Force was highly visible in the five years they were in the area doing Search and Rescue. The base consisted of eight separate buildings, a technical building housing radar equip¬ ment, an administration building, H barracks, a guardhouse, a boiler room, and an electrical generating plant. There were sixty-five to seventy enlisted men stationed at the the base in St. Felix . People in the area who had extra space, as family members left to fight for their country, opened their homes to service personnel. A sergeant, his wife, and young daughter and a young married couple took up residence with my parents. The Service personnel, at the base, held training sessions and parades in the village with members of the Prince Edward Island Militia. John M Ahearn , a returned soldier from World War 1, headed up the parades. He was president of the Great World War Return Soldiers Association who provided hospitality for servicemen and their families during their stay at the . It was May 7, 1943 when people in the Norway , Skinner's Pond, and areas of PEI witnessed what they believed was a naval battle being fought, several miles off shore, in the B,M,e.m srerrnfA," 165