DIARY NOTES
Location
12 Operational Training Unit Edgehill, near Banbury, northwest of London
PT - Physical Training
Blueform - A blue coloured combination airmail letter and envelope, developed during the war
specifically for use to or from military personnel overseas
Star Weekly - Week-end Toronto Star newspaper, with colour pictures
Giff - Giffin, Canadian pilot friend who trained with Johnston, and was later posted to 514
Squadron at Waterbeach
Mac - MacLaren, Canadian pilot and friend who trained with Johnston, and was later posted to
90 Squadron at Tuddenham
Red - Campbell, Canadian pilot friend who trained with Johnston, and was later posted to
514 Squadron at Waterbeach
My flight officer was through - His promotion to flight officer was complete
Airgraph - Letter written on a special form that was then photographed, sent overseas,
developed, printed, and placed in an envelope for delivery
GEE - Radio navigation system that allowed planes to determine their location by timing
synchronized pulses sent from three transmitters in the United Kingdom. It did not extend over the horizon,
and the Germans could jam it, but it was very effective over England and the North Sea
AMBT - A ground based bombing trainer, to practice simulated bombing runs
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February 3, 1944 (Thursday)
Nearly late this a.m. Had quite a runaround by the PT fellows, also a lecture – which was rather a poor score – some of the fellows were mad as hell at a Sergeant telling us off! They won’t take much of that kind of stuff.
Didn’t do anything all day – it was quite windy (40-50 mph). Got two parcels at noon, a blueform from both the folks, and a Star Weekly and bank statement. Got thirty-nine pounds in the bank now.
Giff, Mac, and Red when they came back from the funeral today told me that my flight officer was through which gives me about one hundred pounds back pay by the end of February.
Wrote an airgraph and a letter for the folks tonight and now to bed. Everyone is fussing about after my comics – it’s going to keep me busy reading now.
I got an hour’s GEE and an hour’s AMBT in this morning.
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