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RAF/RCAF Clinton

Black and white photo with two trucks parked on the road outside a barracks. There are several barracks buildings visible along the left side of the road.

Collection of the Secrets of the Radar Museum.

RAF Clinton opened as North America’s first radar training school in August 1941.  The Royal Canadian Air Force took over the base in April 1943. The base was closed in 1971, and eventually became the hamlet of Vanastra.

black and white, birds-eye view of an Air Force base; farmer's fields in the distance.

Birds-eye view of RCAF Clinton, c. 1953