By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     did, but there were a lot of very big words. He said, ”Look 
     
     who wrote it,” the book was written by himself. A couple 
     
     of times he dressed as a civilian and took me to a hockey 
     
     match in Toronto. Officers and other ranks were not to be 
     
     seen together. Class meant a great deal in the Service. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HUNT CLUB, TORONTO (I.T.S.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     I remember driving in a big bus down a very steep 
     
     hill or small mountain on our trip to the Hunt Club (ITS 
     
     - Initial Training School). Here it was decided in which 
     
     branch of the flying school or air crew one would finally 
     
     end up. It also in the end resulted in deciding to what 
     
     part of the world one would be sent - Bomber Command, 
     
     Fighter Pilots, Transport Command, etc. One's future 
     
     depended on the decision of the Training Officer. 
     
    

    
     About the time I arrived, there was a second Pilot 
     
     on the boarding aircraft, who acted as Navigator Bomber 
     
     Aimer, but their reaction was so poor in finding the proper 
     
     target, that the new position of Navigator was established. 
     
     The choices at ITS were Pilot, Navigator, Wireless 
     
     Operator, Bomb Aimer or Gunner. One was expected to 
     
     have at least a small idea of each branch. There are stories 
     
     of Navigators and Bomb Aimers, as well as Engineers, 
     
     landing four engine bombers on their own, when the Pilot 
     
     had been killed or mortally wounded. I recall a story of a 
     
     wounded pilot who was given a second shot of morphine. 
     
     He could not be aroused to land the plane, but one of 
     
     the crew who had never flown a plane, safely landed it. 
     
    

    
     It is wonderful what hidden ability one has in store in a 
     
     grave emergency. It was the Navigator's duty to give the 
     
     morphine shot. I hoped I would never have to perform an 
     
     action that I was never shown how to do. 
     
    
   
   
    
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