[1][2][3][4] Like most of the BCATP airfields, the station at Jarvis was located in a sparsely populated rural area close to rail lines and highways.

The first six aircraft, Fairey Battles, flew in on 9 August 1940, and just ten days later the school opened with a class of 39 air observer trainees.

The same pattern of instruction was used for both bombing and gunnery skills: ground-based classroom and simulator training followed by aerial exercises.

Trainees dropped 5.2 kg practice bombs from Fairey Battles, Avro Ansons, or Bristol Bolingbrokes.

Gunnery students learned how to load, aim, fire, and clean Commonwealth .303 machine guns.

The final step was air-to-ground and air-to-air firing from Fairey Battles at ground targets or airborne drogues towed by Lysanders.

The first WDs, 70 in number, arrived at Jarvis on 27 April 1942, and within six months airwomen were serving in many areas of the station including the control tower, the bomb plotting office, the kitchens, and the stores.

In May 1943, in Operation Chastise, commonly known as the "Dambusters Raid," he successfully navigated the lead Avro Lancaster bomber (piloted by Guy Gibson), at night and at very low level, to its target, a German power dam.

[11] The school's facilities included an airfield and camp, marine units at Port Dover and the mouth of Nanticoke Creek, and a 29-kilometer-long bombing and gunnery range over Lake Erie.

A gunnery range featuring a gun turret mounted on rails was installed on leased property at Hoover's Point.

There were three runways: [12] When a person joined the staff at Jarvis or a piece of equipment was delivered an entry was made in the station's records.

While flying at night on 27 October 1942 Pilot Officer (P/O) John Williams spotted a train on fire near Jarvis.

By 1947 the Crown Assets Disposal Corporation had scrapped the airplanes, dismantled the hangars and other buildings and sold them off, and cleared the site.

For eight years it was leased to local farmers and then sold to Russell and Larry Hare, whose farm adjoined the airfield.

In 1955 the site was turned into an automobile race track called Harewood Acres by the British Empire Motor Club of Toronto.

On 21 August 1993, Imperial Oil and 412 Wing of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association erected a historical plaque dedicated to the personnel who served at the station, with the reverse side of the plaque commemorating the thirty-eight Commonwealth airmen and one civilian who died while serving at No.

[16] Another memorial to those who died serving at Jarvis, this one in stone, is located at RCAF Station Dunnville, where there is a museum dedicated to the BCATP.