A new display sign and flag were unveiled Saturday October 1 at the old Number 5 Elementary Flight Training School in High River.

It was a joint project of many groups, spearheaded by the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 71 and the Nanton Bomber Command Museum

Dan Fox of the Bomber Command Museum says High River was one of over a hundred such bases during World War II.

"This was one of them that trained very many  young pilots and then they went on from this and became bomber pilots, Spitfire pilots, Hurricane pilots and so on," Fox says. "EFTS No. 5 was such an important part of the war effort with the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and we are very proud to be flying one of the aircraft, no. 1214 Tiger Moth that flew from this very base in 1942 with Gordon Jones as one of the instructor pilots.

Jones was a High Riveritte and was proud to keep flying that aircraft until his 90th year. He bequeathed the aircraft to the Nanton Bomber Command Museum and they continue flying and displaying it.