A. Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     land of my forefathers from the Isle of Skye and as far 
     
    

    
     as Aberdeen and the land of the wild Macdonalds who 
     
     were Vikings that landed in Ireland. Donald and his four 
     
     sons had gone to Scotland and started the four clans of 
     
     Macdonald. 
     
    

    
     After about 36 hours of flying I moved to #10 AFU 
     
     Dumfries, Scotland. I went to #80 OTU Ossington in April. 
     
     Here we lined up a crew with F/O Roulston as a Pilot. 
     
    

    
     By this time I was an F/O, the Navigator; Sgt. Gibson the 
     
     Bomb Aimer; Sgt. Tossell, a Welshman, the Engineer; and 
     
     Sgt. Fraser the Wireless Operator. All the crew were from 
     
     Ontario except me and the Engineer who was from Wales, 
     
     and when he got excited he spoke mostly Welsh. We flew 
     
     Wellingtons on the station going from 90 miles an hour 
     
    

    
     to 175 mph. It was quite a change; although we got there 
     
     much faster, we had almost half the wind drift. One time 
     
     we were sent to France, six of us on a leaflet drop. We were 
     
     to be given credit for this, which we never got - this was 
     
     before D-Day. We had no guns on board, and were at the 
     
     mercy of the German fighters. 
     
    

    
     As we thought we were safe getting back to 
     
     England, up came the English fighters and knocked out 
     
     three Wellingtons - the English Pilot thought we were 
     
     Junkers 88 German fighters which also had four engines. 
     
     There was quite an inquiry over this - that was my first 
     
     experience in enemy territory. 
     
    

    
     I do not remember having exams, but according 
     
     to my log book I made 90 in navigation plotting and 91 
     
     in theory although I cannot place myself in the classroom 
     
     after all these years. When we finished up at that school, 
     
     the really down to earth training began as we used to 
     
     have to go out and do bombing on a range. It was quite 
     
     important that the bomber got the exact wind, direction 
     
     and heights. Our Bomb Aimer was very exact, and if he 
     
    
   
   
    
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