Bryce Chase, 101-year-old World War 2 veteran, recounts his years of service in the Royal Canadian Air Force with an impressive amount of detail.
Bryce Chase, 101-year-old World War 2 veteran, recounts his years of service with an impressive amount of detail. Dressed in a suit and tie, with a line of medals hanging from the pocket of his Burma Star Association jacket, Bryce Chase sits on the sofa in his cozy one-room apartment at Calgary's Colonel Belcher retirement home."I didn't do anything that was outstanding, I just went where they told me and I was lucky," Chase said.
"I was just where I wanted to where I was high enough and all of a sudden an updraft . The next thing I knew, with the throttle closed I was at 17,000 feet." Chase was assigned to an air crew that transported supplies and personnel from the American airbase in Calcutta to Burma, and vice versa.Because of that, he said he avoided "the sharp end of the action," but does remember a close call on his flight from England to India.
Another time while he was stationed in India, Chase said he was left with burns to his face and hands after a training session. He was routinely promoted throughout his time in service, and was discharged in 1945 as a squadron leader.
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