‘We Managed to Survive’: 100 Year Old Veteran Remembers Second World War Airfields

‘We Managed to Survive’: 100 Year Old Veteran Remembers Second World War Airfields
A hanger on the site of a WWII era RCAF training base near Claresholm, Alta., Nov. 4, 2021. The Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh
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Hangar 4 has seen better days.

Only scraps of its original white paint remain. The rest has been sandblasted away by 80 years of winds that sweep down from the Rocky Mountains west of the town of Claresholm, Alta.