Canadian Girl Commands RAF Operations Room In Britain
In eastern England a Canadian WAAF officer Nora Da Costa leads aircraft movements from the ops room high above the map in a major control station. She rose from clerk to commissioned officer after training, married Squadron Leader Tony Da Costa in a service ceremony, and now oversees 24 hour fighter and bomber movements with Canada’s insignia on her shoulders. The piece highlights her rapid rise, marriage, and the busy, noisy hub of military aviation command.
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Jerry
Teddy
Womens
Canada
Nora da Costa
Evrie
England
Nora Bolton
Tacoma
Washington
Nanaimo
British Columbia
Jubilee Hospital
Victoria
B.C
Kent
London
Tony” da Costa
Glasgow
Tony
Air mail for troops planned to speed letters home
Hon C G Power announces plans to rush mail by air to overseas troops. The measure aims to boost morale by delivering letters and parcels promptly, as soldiers eagerly read even weeks old news. Gandhi is noted for carrying false teeth but only using them when eating.
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C. G. Power
Windsor Star
Wise Young Man Makes Homework Inquiries In London
A Canadian High Commissioner office story recounts a young man asking who is the Governor General of Canada and how many provinces exist. The caller replies Jenkins while noting the inquiry was for homework. The piece also cites Admiral James on the Crete battle and a Canada TB ranking shift.
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Grant Macdonald
Canada
Robert Thom
Canadian National Railways
Canadian National
London
the Inquirer
Jenkins
Bund leader says trip to Germany cured him
A former German-American Bund leader claims a visit to Germany changed him for the better as he disapproves of Nazi methods. The Buffalo Courier Express notes other Bund leaders may share this view, suggesting they might have stayed in Germany to avoid stirring trouble at home.
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Bund
Germany
Buffalo Courier Express
Canada’s Plastics March Into War Assets
Plastics find a wide wartime role in Canada with buttons and insignia for the armed services. Nylon and other plastics replace metal in uniforms, reducing production time and labor while preserving finish and durability. After the war nylon expected to power new uses from stockings to brushes and window screening.
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Canada
N Canada
Nyten
Navy
Army
Air Force
Canadian Woman Directs Fighter Operations In Britain
Section Officer Nora DaCosta formerly Nora Bolton of Victoria, B C, serves in Britain's secret fighter operations room known as Ops B. She assists the controller directing movements over hundreds of square miles while photos, broker boards, and a large map track every aircraft. DaCosta appears in top tier duties and communicates via secret lines as her husband Squadron Leader Tony DaCosta watches.
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Nora DaCosta
Nora Bolton
Victoria
B.C
Britain
Contoller
RCAF
DaCosta
H. E. Martin
Toronto
Tony” DaCosta
The
R.A F
Glasgow
Postwar aviation plans and public beliefs in helicopters
Newsweek notes that postwar optimism envisions planes in garages and helicopter use rising. It warns private planes will remain costly for average drivers and helicopters may take years to develop. Airlines are expected to expand, but rail freight may not decline soon due to higher costs.
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Air Lines
Newsweek
Lifelike Rag Doll Pattern 7621
Advertising copy for a fabric doll pattern number 7621 offering a rag doll with yarn hair movable limbs and clothes. Includes transfer pattern and instructions and requests twenty cents and address details for Winnipeg pattern distribution.
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Dell
Clothes
Household Arts Department
Winnipeg
Uustton
McDermot Avenue
Man
Soldier's Comic Exchange During Drill Improvises Escape
A bullied infantry recruit answers a sergeant's prompt with a joke about a fine eight, describing a huge boat crowded with sergeants, afloat 400 miles from land in a hurricane, revealing tense humor amid rifle practice.
Honor to RAF pilots to be enshrined in Westminster Abbey
The names of 375 RAF pilots including Canadians who died in the Battle of Britain will be honored in Westminster Abbey after the war. Churchill proclaimed that "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed to so many to so few."
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R.A.F
Britain
Chiurchill
Westminster
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Gandhi
Crete
Mediterranean
William James
Admiralty
United States
Army and Naval Journal
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Gibraltar
Red Sea
North Africa
Soviet Russia
Indian Ocean
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James
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