60th Anniversary: Memorial Gates

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In the early morning hours of 17 December 1939, the Agreement creating the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) was signed. A decade later, dignitaries from the four participating nations - the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - gathered before thousands of spectators to unveil Trenton's BCATP Memorial Gates.

On that day, 30 September 1949, the BCATP's contribution to victory in the Second World War, and Trenton's place as "the hub of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan", were formally recognized.