A. Stewart MacDonald DEC, M.D. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     I do not remember much of our activity at ITS, but 
     
     I recall one night after the lights were out, someone called 
     
     out, ”Dirty old E. flight,” and the battle was on. The duty 
     
     officers and sergeant threw a bucket of water down on the 
     
     officer when he got up the stairs. Was he ever mad! He 
     
     went around to each bed and shone the flashlight on each 
     
     one. Was it ever hard to keep my eyes closed; everyone 
     
     was deep in sleep. They never got the ring leaders, and 
     
     that was the only time I saw a near scrap turn into a 
     
     complete silence within 10 minutes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MA LTON 
     
    
   
   
    
     Following a rigorous drilling course at the Hunt 
     
     Club, I was sent to Malton airport in the outskirts of 
     
     Toronto. I arrived at Malton on June 6, 1943 and was 
     
     elevated to LAC which increased my pay from $1.30 a 
     
     day to $2.12 a day and I was considered a Navigator-in- 
     
     training. We had eleven courses including Navigation, 
     
     PR Theory, Meteorology, Photography, Reconnaissance, 
     
     Signals, Armament and Navigation, and Air Exercises 
     
     Photography. We had to pass all of them with no 
     
     supplementary exams allowed. My first navigation flight, 
     
     and the first time I was in an aeroplane was on June 10th. 
     
     Out of 45 flights, 78 hours during the day and 36 hours 
     
     at night, I only had a couple of flights with the same 
     
     Pilots. The Pilots varied a great deal, and some of them 
     
     were task masters. When we arrived back from a flight, 
     
     we had to go before an examiner - the Pilot and I had to 
     
     have the navigational charts reviewed. Of all the pilots, I 
     
     still remember only one; his name was Little. One night 
     
     we turned a fixed point and I gave him a poor course. He 
     
     called me up and said, ”I think you could have given 
     
    
   
   
    
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