Early Life
Born in 1921 in Lachine, Quebec, Symons grew up in Dixie, a small residential town with two brothers, John and Arthur (Randy). Each of the three boys grew to become surviving pilots in the Second World War. Their father, Gerald Symons, was a surviving member of the Canadian Forces of World War I and World War II.
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