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Joined the Belgian airforce in 1950
Primary training on Stampe SV4 in Tienen (Goetsenhoven)(May - July 1950)
Advanced flying training on Harvard at No. 1 Flying Trainings School, RCAF Centralia (Canada)
Awarded Pilots Flying badge on 18 May 1951
Operational Conversion on Spitfire at 'Ecole de Chasse' at Koksijde (4 June 1951 - 25 September 1951)
Auxiliary squadron, 1 Wing flying Spitfire Mk. XIV at Beauvechain (26 September 1951 - 1 April 1952)
349 squadron flying Gloster Meteors at Beauvechain.
