Canadian Airman Hard Years On Malta Showdown
Lieut. Edmond Jess of Quebec served a year with Malta’s Fleet Air Arm in Swordfish operations. He survived a near depth charge death and recounts night missions, convoy battles, and a submarine kill alongside pilots Ernie Gaunt and Bud Hutton. The squadron helped sink ships and defend Axis raids, part of a 400,000 ton shipping toll.
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Scott Young
London
Edmond Jess
Quebec
Fleet Air Arm
Jess
McGill
R.C.N.V.R
Gibraltar
Malta
Navy
George Beurling
Eagle
Britain
Africa
Indian Ocean
Ernie Gaunt
Toronto
Bud Hutton
Saskatoon
Murray McLandress
Winnipeg
Gaunt
Hutton
McLandress
Kelvin Technical High School
University of Manitoba
North Africa
Mediterranean
Elizabeth Jess
Wrens
Galt. Ont
Desert Supply Challenge Behind British 8th Army Drive
Lt. Gen. Sir Wilfred Lindsell details the Q branches efforts in sustaining the 8th Army on a 1500 mile pursuit from El Alamein to Tripoli. Daily water needs reached 2400 tons with 400 to 520 tons for divisions depending on water access and desert conditions.
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8Th Army
el Alamein
Tripoli
Africa Corps
Wilfred Gordon Lindsell
Sword Of Honor For Stalin City To Be Accepted By Kalinin
The sword of honor the King plans to present to Stalin grad will be accepted with gratitude. President Kalinin said the blade would symbolize comradeship in arms between Britain and the Soviet Union. The piece will be forged by one of Britain’s few remaining swordmakers in a medieval style. The report notes the potato’s likely Andean origin.
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Stalingrad
Michael Kalinin
Russia
Monitor
Kalinin
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Britain
Jellicoe
Beatty
French
Unconditional surrender and German myths in war era thoughts
A Chicago Sun opinion piece argues that Nazi rule echoed past German leaders like Bismarck and the Kaiser and warns that true peace requires policing German elites and eradicating superman ideals. It states unconditional surrender only matters if it ends Nazi influence.
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Kaiser
Bismarck
Hitler
Germany
Chicago Sun
Unusual Skill Among Women Promises Radio Location Future
Britain sees women driving radio location research as Sir Robert Watson-Watt praises nimble fingers and keen minds. He recruited a 1000 woman Amazon corps in 1937 to secretly test the new method and believes radio location suits female characteristics with a bright future ahead.
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Robert Watson-Watt
Sir Robert
Amazon Corps
Spain May Swing Power Balance
Reports foresee a Spanish showdown as Franco faces pressure from Nazi forces. The German High Command may move to relieve Rommel, risking Franco's 750000 Nazi-trained troops and shifting Allied calculations in North Africa. Moroccan artillery could target Gibraltar, threatening Eisenhower's army.
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Francisco Franco
Rommel
Hitler
Franco
Spain
Gibraltar
Dwight Eisenhower
North
Africa
Postwar aviation policy eyed in US Canada talks
Washington sources say the United States may seek a postwar aviation accord with Canada first, as debates rage over domination versus internationalization of air routes. Officials discuss sovereignty extended, bilateral pacts, or international corporations to share or open airways and bases for global commercial flight.
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Washington
Canada
United States
Arctic
Britain
Newfoundland
Eire
Army
Air Transport Command
Russia
Germany
North Atlantic
Pacific
Polish inventor sees rubber as new prosperity base
Dr Waclaw Szukiewicz, Polish chemist and refugee, predicts postwar American wealth from cheap plastics and tires using synthetic rubber. He revealed a grain alcohol to butadiene process, leads to GSR, government approved plant plans, after confronting Nazi Poland and later heading a Philadelphia rubber alcohol plant. He insists science is at the threshold of rubber development.
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Waclaw Szukiewicz
Szukiewicz
Poland
Warsaw
U.S
Publicker Commercial Alcohol Company
Philadelphia
Senate
Szukieswicz
Embroidery Notes For Best Linens Pattern 7465
Sweet flower motifs for guest towels and pillow cases. Three designs with a pair of each, six motifs total averaging 5 by 14 inches, includes stitch illustrations and material list. Pattern 7465 costs twenty cents. mail to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba.
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Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
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Dick Dursrrcare
Aly
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Algeria
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Gibrelter
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Goverment Synthetic Rubber
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