Saskatchewan Aviator’s First Operational Flight Described
Lincoln Montgomery of Churchbridge Saskatchewan recalls his first mission as a Royal Canadian Air Force navigator. After years of training in Canada and Britain he reaches Britain, joins a Mitchell bomber squadron, braces for flak and fighters, and completes his first raid with nerves and awe.
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Lincoln Montgomery
University of Manitoba
Churchbridge
Saskatchewan
Royal Canadian Air Force
Brandon Manning
Saskatoon
Regina
Mossbank
Rivers
Pennfield Ridge
N.S
Britain
R.C.A.F
A Fine Example of Dig for Victory at Windsor Castle
The Windsor Castle estate embodies Britain's dig for victory effort. The Great Park, once a London weekend retreat, is now under cultivation with 200 cattle replacing 1,000 deer. Over 900 acres of grain and large quantities of tomatoes have been produced for market.
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Windsor Castle
Britain
Great Park
Royal Gardens
Sheep fleece quality tied to feed ration
The article explains that fleece strength and yield depend on feed ration. Under nutrition or illness weakens wool fibres and reduces overall quality of the fleece.
Solar Light Reaches Earth After 8 Minute Journey
A ray from the sun requires eight minutes to traverse space and arrive on Earth. This transit reflects the vast distance light travels through space between the sun and our planet.
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Earth
Met Museum Acquires Sung Dynasty Silk Painting
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently added a late eleventh century Sung Dynasty silk painting to its collection. The fragile work shows a white tribute horse moving through a mountain landscape, with no signature and illegible collector seals. The unidentified artist’s work was bought in Peking and later acquired by the museum.
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Metropolitan Museum
Peking
New York
Museum
New Flower from Time and Tide Competition Revealed
The New Flower entry titled Churchilla (Pl a e) earned second prize for the discoverer. The perennial, stocky and compact, bears red white and blue blooms with a cigar like fragrance. Indigenous to this country it thrives without special care and salt breezes boost growth. Roots enrich soil while deter pests. It has been transplanted abroad to the United States and North Africa. Propagation is by cuttings year round.
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United States
North Africa
New York Times
Burmese R.A.F. planes aid Burma supply and evacuation efforts
Burmese Royal Air Force planes operating from India have rendered valuable service in Burma over the past year. They flew supplies into Rangoon and evacuated women and children while dropping food and clothing to refugees in the hills of northern Assam. One plane with an Empire and Commonwealth crew landed on an 800 yard jungle clearing and carried seventeen sick and wounded soldiers to India for treatment.
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R.A.F
India
Burma
Rangoon
Nothern
Assam
Nelson’s fleet at Trafalgar numbered twenty seven ships
In 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar Admiral Nelson commanded a fleet of twenty seven ships. The action pitted British forces against the combined fleets of France and Spain as Nelson sought to break enemy lines and secure British naval dominance.
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Nelson
Trafalgar
Flying Against The Enemy The RAF Jokes Of War Humor
A BBC Bulletin vignette recalls RAF humor amid conflict. Stories include a Sunderland crew decoding German IC cipher jokes, fat German officers nearly capsizing in a fjord, a radio operator toying with Hitler, and a German mine layer blown up by his own mined area after British mine sweepers fail to clear.
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Ralph Michaelis
BBC
Norway
Hitler
Hamburg
Ruhr
Germany
North Sea
Cheery Pinafore Pattern 7638 Offered by Winnipeg Paper
The ad promotes Pattern 7638 with a transfer motif 6 by 10 inches and six smaller motifs for pinafores and linens. It notes directions for pinafores, asks twenty cents in coins to the Household Arts Department of the Winnipeg Newspaper Union at 175 McDermot Avenue, and warns mail delays may slow delivery.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Paper made gliders rise from salvaged waste scraps
Reports from England say nimble fingered workers fashion weatherproof glider parts from layered coloured paper. Paper is a top salvage item in Canada as its use in war material grows, with salvage concentrated in districts outside Edmonton Fort William.
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England
Canada
Edmonton
Fort William
Estimating Hay and Straw Crop Yields in Mows
Guidance on calculating hay output by multiplying length, depth, and breadth, then dividing by 450 to estimate tons. For straw use the same method but divide by 600 to 1000 depending on mow duration, with longer storage reducing the divisor.
Transit Time Through Suez Canal Report
The report states the Suez Canal 101 miles long has an average transit time of 11 hours 31 minutes.
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Suez Canal
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London
Dominion
Monty
Canadian National Railways
Trans- Canada Air Lines
Manitoba
Port Arthur
Lakehead
Portage-Brandon
Prince Albert
Hudson Bay Railway
Prince Rupert
R. C. Vaughan
C_.N.R
Grant
System Victory Loan
Florida
A. P. Roberts
George
Australia
Italy
RCAF
Bernard Tremblay
Montreal
Fred Atkinson
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