The Aircraft Detection Corps Newfoundland
- The Aircraft Detection Corps Newfoundland
The Aircraft Detection Corps Newfoundland was created by Newfoundland's Commissioner of Defence during World War II. Newfoundland's Aircraft Detection Corps was composed of volunteers who were supposed to report suspicious planes and ships. After the Canadian Army occupied Newfoundland, the Commissioner of Defence amalgamated The Newfoundland Aircraft Detection Corps with The Canadian Aircraft Identity Corps.
In the spring of 1942, the Aircraft Detection Corps volunteers received received manila envelopes with a letter from L. E. Emerson, Commissioner of Defence for Newfoundland stating that "Aircraft Identity Corps Newfoundland" would be reorganized as an instrument of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In the same package was a letter from Flight Lieutenant H.H. Graham who was the commanding officer of Torbay Airport (No. 1 Group R.C.A.F. St. John's). The envelope had glosseries of airplanes and ships; a Aircraft Identity Corps identity card and instructions. At war's end the volunteers also received a brass Volunteer Aircraft Obververs button for his lapel pin and certificate of thanks from Canada's Ministry of Defence.
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