RCAF Station, Skipton-on-Swale

10/08/45 This was home to many men of RCAF Station, Skipton-on-Swale, Yorks from which the Tiger(424) and Porcupine ( 433) squadrons operated. A water tower on high ground dominates this group of buildings. Squat, round roofed Nissen huts are where the men slept during the 2 1/2 years they occupied this airfield in north England. The other single-storied huts are the ablutions. It is a cold dash across there in the middle of winter for a wash, and the primitive showers were not improved by the cold atmosphere of the huts. A bit of one of the cillages within the limits of this widely dispersed station shows i the background. Static water supplied, familiar to every wayfared in England and usually marked " SWS" in a yellow swimming hole.LAC L.W> Talos of Brantford, Ontario is poised on an improvised spring board. LAC L.W. Teatro of Oshawa ( 70 Park Road), Ontario, has preceded him into the water.