service. The Bermuda Flying School was headed by Major Montgomery-Moore, DFC, who was also the commanding officer of the BVE. In addition to the British Army and Royal Naval units in Bermuda during the War, a Royal Canadian Navy base, HMCS Somers Isles, operated at the former Royal Naval site at Convict Bay, and four airbases were operated in Bermuda – one by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm, the Royal Air Force used RAF Darrell's Island, the US Navy operated flying boats from the US Naval Operating Base, and the US Army Air Force and the RAF shared an airfield built by the US Army, Kindley Field. Although air and naval units based in Bermuda played an active part in the War, the Axis Powers never launched a direct attack on the colony. The considerable buildup of the American Bermuda Base Command of artillery and infantry forces and air bases in Bermuda began in April 1941 under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. With the US entry into the war in 1942, as well as the decreased danger posed by German surface ships and submarines, the moratorium preventing local units sending drafts overseas was lifted in 1943. The Home Guard was raised at the same time, conscripting for part-time service from those men who had been exempted from full-time service. The unit took over some of the duties of the BMI and the BVRC, enabling the full-time units to send contingents overseas. The BVRC sent a second detachment to the Lincolnshire Regiment, and the Bermuda Militia (Artillery and Infantry together) sent a draft which formed the training cadre and the core of the new Caribbean Regiment. Other than those needed to defend their bases, US ground forces were withdrawn on the war's end. 1945 to 1957 Following the war, the BVE and BMI, as well as the Home Guard, ceased to existed. The BMA and BVRC were both demobilised, reduced to skeleton staffs. Both were quickly built back up to strength in 1951, and conscription, which had been used during the war, was re-introduced for both units (the BVRC suitably being retitled simply Bermuda Rifles), although the conscripts served on a part-time basis, whereas wartime service had been full-time for the duration. The last coastal artillery, the Examination Battery on St. David's Head, was removed from use in 1953, and the BMA converted to the infantry role (but remained nominally