By led and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     hours every day, including Sundays. 
     
    

    
     One of my floor jobs was to mark on the frame 
     
     of the 14,000 port gun where the gun sight sat - this had 
     
     to be exact with a tolerance of one - ten thousandth of a 
     
     millimetre. The area was measured from a big jig1 which 
     
     weighed 30 tons. After I made a few of these sight findings, 
     
     when they started working on the frames, to the exact 
     
     measurement, they found a considerable error. There was 
     
     hell to pay and most of it was on my shoulders. I insisted, 
     
     as well as the inspector, that the measurement was exact. 
     
     Again a couple of men came from Montreal and found, to 
     
     my surprise as well as relief, that the 30 ton jig from a set 
     
     point was made of green steel, and it seasoned and made 
     
     the error, so I had to get the carriage back and fix up the 
     
     error. 
     
    

    
     When the Production Manager went to Montreal 
     
     and took a Sunday off, I was the assistant and had to 
     
     carry on his work. I figured the learning and experience 
     
     was of great value in later years, even though I see errors 
     
     in people who think they know it all. In the 17 months 
     
     I worked as a fitter, I only got home to Prince Edward 
     
     Island once. The Production Manager was quite peeved 
     
     at my leaving Trenton to go into the RCAF after all the 
     
     time he had spent preparing me to carry on my work, but 
     
     I think as I look back after all the years since 1942, that all 
     
     my training helped me to become a Navigator, from my 
     
     plotting and blueprint reading and marking over the years. 
     
    

    
     I was allowed to attend classes after I went working 
     
     on the floor, while I could see my other classmates working 
     
     for $55.00 a month. As a result I got my certificate from 
     
     the Technical school in Halifax as a Machine Fitter. I often 
     
     think of those days of fitting when I see the Orthopaedists 
     
     fixing bones together in a fracture. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. A devicefor holding machine work in place 
     
    
   
   
    
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