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Air Cadet Day.
15 October 1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Air Cadet Day.
15 October 1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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A guest of honour.
15 October 1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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The Mosquito flying display.
15 October 1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Excitement at Air Cadet Day.
15 October 1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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The Chief Test Pilot.
1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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"Buzz" Beurling, right.
1945
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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DH test pilots.
1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Gerry Wooll.
1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Wooll and Stone receive Caterpillars.
1943
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Flight Lieutenant Gerald R. Wooll was a Mosquito pilot with the fabled No. 540 (Photo Reconnaissance) Sqn. of the RAF (formerly No. 1 PRU). Flying a British-built P.R. Mark IV version on a mission to Venice, Italy, in August, 1942, he was forced to land at Berne in neutral Switzerland with engine coolant trouble. While Gerry and his navigator were soon sent back to England in a prisoner exchange, his Mosquito DK 310 was impounded, and ended up in the Swiss Air Force.

By agreement, Gerry was not permitted to fly on European operations again, so he ended up coming to Downsview with Pat Fillingham in February, 1943. With Ralph Spradbrow out, and Geoffrey de Havilland Jr. back in England, there was a dire shortage of experienced Mosquito pilots in Canada. Fillingham stayed only six months, then was sent on to Bankstown, Australia to set up the Mosquito test program there.

On April 26, Gerry declared an emergency on a test flight over the east end of Toronto. Smoke soon turned into flames, and Wooll, along with his observer T.J. "Tim" Stone, were forced to bail out. Gerry parachuted onto railway tracks near Dawes Road and was dragged a bit. The burning Mosquito, or rather most of it, came down in Arthur W. Mason's farm. Stone landed near the Don Ravine.

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Checked out another pilot.
1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Allied Mosquito pilots.
1944
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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Mosquito 1,000.
1945
Downsview, Ontario, Canada
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