Top and left: formation flight, Gus Rabe
looks up to camera from ship # 53
After five months of elementary teaching at #11 E.F.T.S. Pilot Instructor Gus Rabe was recalled by the R.C.A.F. and entered Service training with #6 S.F.T.S. at
Dunnville, Ontario leading to a full commission and posting to a front-line fighter
squadron. During the time my Father worked at Three Rivers the United States entered the war on Dec. 7, 1941 with the unprovoked attack by Japanese Navel
and Air Forces on the U.S. Navel Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii effectively knocking
out the United States Pacific Fleet with great loss of life, property and material.
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