Harvard Trainer Plane Becomes Canada’s Air Training Icon
The Harvard AT 16 advanced trainer, produced by Noorduyn Flight in Canada, fuels Canada’s wartime air training. A bright yellow all metal two seater, it features dual controls, night equipment, and a 550 horsepower engine. The program employed thousands of Canadians to supply trainers rapidly, aiding RCAF pilots against Axis forces.
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Canada
Harvard
Great Educations Centre
R.C.A F
FA F
Noorduyn Aviation Limited
North American Aviation Incorporated
California
Rb.c. Noorduyn
Flying Dutchman
Ottawa
RCAF
Alow
Noorduyn
North American
Polish Girl Joins Canadian Women's Army Corps in Nova Scotia
A Polish girl living temporarily in Nova Scotia becomes the first European guest child to enlist in the Canadian Women's Army Corps. Her name cannot be disclosed for safety. She arrived from Poland in 1938, took the oath on May 15, and begins basic training in Kitchener Ontario while hoping to aid Poland and Canada.
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Women's Army Corps
Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Nova Scotia
Poland
Canada
Kitchener
Ont
Delivered the Goods 625 Mile Train Drive to North Africa
A vast mobilization shipped supplies for the British First Army in North Africa last November. The train, if stretched end to end, would run about 625 miles, built by a nonstop effort of men and women mostly new to the work.
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First Army
North Africa
Origin of the Name Pica dilly Tells Tailor's Tale
A fashionable tailor who kept a home named Picadilly Hall is credited with giving rise to the name Pica dilly. The anecdote links the shopkeeper’s residence to a now famous place name through a village tale.
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Picadilly Hall
Picadilly
Parachute badge replaces Army Air Corps insignia
Britain's Parachute Regiment receives a new cap badge replacing the Army Air Corps emblem it forms part of. The design features a parachute on spread wings with the Royal Crest above.
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Britain
Parachute Regiment
Army Air Corps
Royal
Special size uniforms for varied body types in Royal Canadian Army
An Ottawa RCOC tailoring unit explains the demand for extra large and small sizes beyond standard stock. Thirty two sizes exist but outliers like a 53 waist and 55 chest challenge fit, with Joe Madore noting a 319 pound recruit and a six foot eleven private measured at 41 chest and 36 waist.
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Minntzin
Literacy Gap Among Japanese Soldiers in U S Reports
A wartime report notes that about 15 of every 100 Japanese soldiers can read English, while all can read their native tongue. It describes conscription lasting 70 years, with recruits meeting height and weight standards, and provides pay figures for officers from first lieutenants to colonels along with early morning drills.
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U.S
Japan
Measuring for fit in the Canadian Army tailoring shop
In Ottawa, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps tailor Joseph E. Madore takes neck measurements of Private Armand Heintzman from Toronto. Heintzman, a 230 pound, six foot soldier, has a 45 inch chest and a 46 inch waist, reflecting the 32 size range with special fittings.
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Joseph E. Madore
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Armand Heintzman
Toronto
Ottawa
Seed conservation urged for 1943 crops and Allied aid
Seeds Administrator Nelson Young warns farmers to save and harvest as much alfalfa red clover and similar high protein seeds as possible to meet 1943 needs. Surplus seed should be sold at retail ceilings while dairying groups conserve forage crops to aid Allied nations. In Britain 85 000 women have taken men’s railway jobs.
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Canada
Nelson Young
Mr. Young
Great Britain
North land tour by Canadian Pacific leaders impresses business chiefs
W M Neal vice president of Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian Pacific Air Lines leads a 7000 mile air rail and motor tour of northern Canada. The party visits Aklavik Norman Wells Fort McMurray Great Bear Lake Whitehorse and Dawson Creek and returns via Edmonton. The group praises rapid development of Canada's north under wartime demand.
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Canada
Northland
W. M. Neal
Canadian Pacifi Railway
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Montreal
W A. Mather
Winnipeg
Western Lines
Edmonton
Mackenzie River
Aklavik
Arctic
Norman Wells
Mackenzie
Fort McMurray
Great Bear Lake
Fort M Murray
North Alberta Railways
Neal
Whitehorse
Dawson Creek
Northern Alberta Railways
Canadas
H. E. Sellers
Manitoba National War Finance Committee
W. A
C P.R
Breig K.C
Quebec Legislative Council
Elia Mannix
F. W. Rosas
Bank of Nova Scotia
G. W. G. McConachie
Five new emergency kits aid airmen stranded at sea or land
The RCAF introduces five emergency devices for air crew including an individual bandoleer ration pack, a supplementary aircraft kit, a winter flying kit, a dinghy kit for sea landings, and a small emergency radio. The personal kit weighs an inch thick with gum biscuits and chocolate bars while medical and signaling gear plus a radio system ensure SOS transmission on 500 kilocycles.
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Sve
RCAF
Air Force Headquarters
Wartime uses for discarded toothpaste tubes revealed
The wartime prices and trade board in Regina reports used collapsible tubes play a vital role in the war effort. One month’s supply of returned tubes can line water canteens for North Africa, with tin from tubes used for 20 bottles. From 250 tubes tin for a Bolingbroke bomber is produced. In May collectors across Canada shipped over 13.5 tons of used tubes to smelters.
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Prices and Trade Board
Regina
Canada
Aircraft Plywood and Its Wartime Demands
Aircraft plywood is engineered to meet strength standards. Last year 6 billion board feet saved 2.5 million tons of metals and 200 thousand tons of rubber. In 1943 the plywood program faces a bottleneck for high quality veneer and timber, prompting searches for alternative woods.
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New York
Psychology of Auditory Perception Confounds Quiet Radio
The question explores why a ticking clock is heard clearly at a distance while a radio remains inaudible eight feet away unless very loud. It highlights auditory masking, attention, and signal-to-noise ratios affecting everyday hearing.
Royal Canadian Engineers Receive Key to the Rock
The tunnelling company returned to England after months of work on Gibraltar's fortress and each man was presented with a "key to the rock" by Lieut. Gen. A G L McNaughton GOC in C First Canadian Army.
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Royal Canadian Engineers
England
Empire
Mediterranean
A. G. L McNaughton
G.o.c.-In
First Canadian Army
Prince Felix of Luxembourg In London As War Strain Grows
Prince Felix of Luxembourg, a colonel in his principality’s army, spoke in London about Luxembourg under Nazi occupation. He noted half a million German troops, 300000 residents displaced to work in factories, and his son John serving as a private in the Irish Guards. Felix is now with the British northern command.
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Prince Felix of
Luxembourg
Canada
London
Luxembourg Society
Germany
Prince Felix
Northern Command
John
Grand Duke of
Irish Guards
England
Do Over Your Room This Thrifty Way
Do over your room on a budget with step by step instructions for dressing-table skirts spreads and more. Pattern 7448 offers spreads and accessories with mailing details to the Household Arts Depart ment Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Britain’s Bombers Carry More Bombs by September 1942
By September 1942 Britain’s largest bombers could haul roughly four times the bomb load of the heaviest bombers at the war’s start. The shift reflects enhanced air power and strategic reach as the conflict progressed.
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Britain
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