The Log shows as a newly qualified pilot he was posted to "71 O.T.U. Ismalia" (OTU = Operations Training Unit) where
he continued to fly Harvards. Details of the Harvards flown at this time are shown at
Appendix 60. This combat training was at Ismalia.
During World War II the airfield, then known as RAF Ismailia or Ismailia Airfield was used as a military airfield by the
British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force during the North African Campaign against Axis forces.
Ismailia was a pre-World War II station, originally opened about 1916.
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