Pennfield A.N.S. Is Being Amalgamated With Rivers Station
Personnel Now Being Moved To Manitoba; Pennfield Field To Continue In Use
Transcribed by G. Christian Larsen

    Official announcement was made over the week-end of the transfer of No.2 Air Navigation School, R.C.A.F., from Pennfield Ridge to Rivers, Manitoba, where No.1 A.N.S. is being enlarged to absorb the entire establishment which  has been located at Pennfield since that field was placed in service early in 1941. Unofficial reports have been heard for some months past of the impending change, but it was not until Sunday that Air Commodore A.B. Shearer, air officer commanding No.2 Training Command of the R.C.A.F., made the official statement at Winnipeg.

    The transfer is mutually regretted by residents of this district and a considerable number of the Pennfield personnel who have been welcome visitors at homes here and in other communities in Charlotte County. In the past several days many of the airmen have called on friends in the County to say good-bye and voice their regret that their duties now take them thousands of miles away. The transfer of officers and men began before the official announcement was made.

    There has been so far no official statement of the use to be made of the splendid facilities at Pennfield, but unofficial information is that they are to continue in service.

    SOURCE: The Saint Croix Courier (St. Stephen, NB) - May 14, 1942.