Recruits Form Veritable Foreign Legion In RCAF Women’s Division
About 160 non Canadian women have enlisted in the RCAF Women’s Division since its start three years ago. Many hail from the British Empire and the United States, creating a diverse force with shoulder flashes from Switzerland to Mexico. Notable members include Ruth Jernholm of Denmark origin, Gertrude Fry from Switzerland, Jacqueline Williams born in Paris, and Frances Cochan from Poland, among others. The group includes pilots, cooks, and staff at stations in Newfoundland, Ottawa, and Western Command, reflecting a multinational effort to support the Allied war effort.
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Smost
Canada
RCAF
United States
Foreign Legion
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
France
Great Britain
Newfoundland
Argentine
Ukraine
Mexico
Jernholm
Dzipko
Maszin
Proskouriakoff
Europe
Ruth Jernholm
R.C.A F
Denmark
Winnipeg
Gertrude Fry
Peace River
Alta
Vulcan
Ferdinand Fry
Lucerne
R.C.A.F
Law Jacqueline Wiliams
Paris
New York
Jacky
Frances Cochan
Dryden
Ont
Poland
Jenny Ozipko
Holden
Elizabeth Anne Oleschuk
Winnipeg Beach
Man
Anna Maszin
Toronto
Helen Robinson
South America
Moscow
Cpl. Robinson
Helen Proskouriakoff
Law Edith Walker
Tampico Mexico
Air Force Headquarters
Ottawa
Law M. Asher
Western Air Command
British West Indies
Barbadoes
Jamaica
Bermuda
UK ‘I SA
New Zealand
South Africa
W.D. ‘Foreign Legion
R.caf
Air Force
British Empire
Law Kathy Fleming
Burin North
Mary Card
Muriel Anderson
North Tonawanda
N.Y. U.S.A
Mary van Rijn
England
Tampico
Cpl
Beryl Ince
Barribadoes
Diana James
Big story of the invasion is brotherhood among Allied troops
The Eisenhower briefing frames the invasion as a story of men from uniting nations acting as brothers in pursuit of freedom. He stresses that cooperation across American British and Canadian forces defeats Nazi claims of racial superiority and embodies democracy and self government under God.
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Eisenhower
U.S
United Nations
Christian Science Monitor
Postwar Delivery Delays Bring Unexpected Hospital Gift
A high speed salesman who had joined the Army was wounded in action and lay delirious for days. During his recovery, nurses gathered around his bed and offered him money for radios and refrigerators he had sold them while unconscious, a Capper's Weekly note.
Climate snapshot of Rome’s seasons and temperatures
The Rome climate is warm and sunny with large day night temperature swings. December to February are the coldest months at about 47 degrees while July and August stay around 75 degrees.
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Rome
After The War Churchills may set at Walmer Castle Deal
After the conflict the Churchills are expected to reside at Walmer Castle near Deal with Mr and Mrs Churchill holding occupancy as Warden of the Cinque Ports in succession to the late Lord Willingdon. Mrs Churchill recently instructed staff to keep furniture and decorations intact preserving historic associations. The Cinque Ports name reflects five ports including Sandwich Dover Hythe Romney and Hastings and remains unchanged.
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Dover
Churchill
Walmer Castle
Deal
Cinque Ports
Lord Willingdon
Sandwich
Hythe
Romney
Hastings
Britain
Winchelsea
Rye
Eisenhower library stocked with western thrillers
An aide says General Dwight Eisenhower keeps a personal library in his trailer filled mainly with western thrillers. He favors stories where three men die in the opening and the hero stands over them with smoking guns. The piece also notes that the laughing jackass is a bird, not an animal.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Jackass
Germany Faces Oil Shortage Hampering War Effort
A German Ministry spokesman says oil production is under 59 percent of military needs, halting Luftwaffe training and limiting aerial activity. Allied air strikes cut oil to a third of normal output, threatening operational mobility and potentially shortening the war this summer.
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Germany
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Rich Cape Town fish yields vitamin A rich oil
Word from Cape Town reports a 60 ton fish called the bloubiskop or bafaro Polypron americanus. Its liver oil is 800 times richer in vitamin A than cod liver oil and a thimbleful can feed a family for eight months.
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Cape Town
Eskimo Rib Count and Fur Trade Peak Month
August tops fur dealer season while January lags as a busy period. The article notes a statistic that about one in seven Eskimo men has an extra rib, highlighting unusual biological trivia amid the seasonal economy.
Invasion risk noted by German paper a year ago
The German newspaper warned there were no guarded places from the far north to the Bay of Biscay for a landing or bridgehead. The Sault Daily Star notes shifts in the assessment. Cork peak trees live about 150 years, reach 30 feet tall, and trunks of three feet or more in diameter.
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Bay of Biscay
Sault Daily Star
Cork Peak
Old Man Plowing Under War Skies In Normandy
A Normandy farmer toils in a sunlit field as planes roar overhead, embodying resilience on the home front. The piece urges perseverance in production, price control, and postwar recovery, citing war quotes and a public resolve to hold fast to economic and ethical standards.
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Edna Jaques
Normandy
Ghdera
Germany
Canada
Such Is Luck John MacVane’s Normandy Beachhead Injury
War correspondent John MacVane landed with the first wave at Normandy and avoided mortars and shells but fractured an ankle two days after landing. The mention notes the earliest medical record by Imhotep, physician to the Pharaohs, is likely 3000 years old.
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John MacVane
NEC
Normandy
Irmhotep
Easily Memorized Calot and Purse Crochet Pattern
Pattern 7103 provides directions for a calot hat and matching purse in summery straw yarn. Send twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union to obtain the pattern, include name address and pattern number, note delays due to mail delivery.
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Household Arts
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
German prisoners in Normandy surrender with suitcases packed
BBC correspondent Stuart Mc Pherson notes some German prisoners in Normandy surrendered with suitcases packed as if not escaping but surrendering as ordered. Separately, remains of an Arctic walrus have been found in Georgia, indicating unusual coastal findings.
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BBC
Stuart McPherson
Normandy
Georgia
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