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2B&GS Mossbank History Remembered

Like many of the rundown and often largely forgotten remnants of past BCATP airfields, the
Mossbank Site now consists of a triangular runway footprint imprinted on a wheatfield. But the
spirit of the 2B&GS site lives on in the form of the excellent custodial role provided by the
Mossbank Museum in association with the local Golf Course which occupies the northern part of
the old site. The museum itself maintains a wealth of information from the site’s active service
period. The site and the admin building (club house) are now part of a walk-through history.

Mossbank 2B&GS Site showing the footprints of the 6 Hangars and the 9 current day
viewing points with mounted plaques (photos & information on site places or activities)

When reading of aircrews’ experiences of attending Mossbank 2B&GS the responses are twofold:
first is the impact of the isolation of the site from any major townships; the second is that the
training they had at Mossbank was recognised to be of very high calibre.

An Australian aircrewman’s impressions were published in a Queensland newspaper in May’42:

“I got through the school at Winnipeg and then went to a place called Mossbank in Southern
Saskatchewan, for a few weeks and graduated there. It was a terrible place to be in, although the
station itself was excellent. It was miles away from a decent town and even the village was four or
five miles away, and from what I hear we didn’t miss anything by not paying it a visit”.