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No.1 B.F.T.S. Traditional Geocache

This cache has been archived.

klce: From drives on behalf of the late klce:
It is with great sadness and sorry that I must archive this highly favorited cache of his. We waited until it had reached 100 favorites before pulling the trigger to let it go. It was a unique one-of-a-kind geocache that looked like an official benchmark. Over the years, it moved around a little, and it seemed like both the adjacent land owner and the city/airport maintenance crews all knew about it and left it alone. But now some un-thinking, devil may care, construction employee just totally removed it knowing full good and well that it belonged to someone other than them. So basically, you could say someone stole it. Either way, it is gone and now can never be replaced. So long good friend, both to the cache and to the CO.

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Hidden : 11/18/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:

The No. 1 British Flying Training School Cache is a cache commemorating an obscure and interesting chapter in World War II history and replaces a previous cache of the same name.

The No. 1 British Flying Training School (No.1 B.F.T.S.) in Terrell was one of six schools in the United States built to train British pilots during WWII. From 1941 to 1944 it graduated over 2,000 pilots for the Royal Air Force. The Terrell school was the largest and the only school that was constructed from scratch. The UPI reported: "Texas welcomed the pilots during their training, and a special relationship developed with the community. The young British students became a part of the Terrell community, putting on stage skits during Christmastime and taking part in church services. They were also welcomed into homes and treated like sons by many families. About 40 of the young pilots, met and eventually married women they met in Texas. Eighteen of the trainees are buried in Terrell with a monument inscribed from Rupert Brooke's famous line: "Some corner of a foreign field that is forever England." (see 'Some Corner' GC1F4KQ) Other caches are located in or near Oakland Cemetery as well. Across this open field (once runways in the early 1940's) and just the other side of the Terrell Municipal Airfield is the NO.1 B.F.T.S. Museum. https://www.bftsmuseum.org/

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