Harvard Aircraft Shapes Canada’s War Training Program
The Harvard AT-16 advanced trainer powers Canada’s air training scheme as Noorduyn Aviation builds thousands of yellow two seat metal monoplanes. Heavily crewed, dual controls, blind flying gear, and camera gun aid pilots. The program expands from 142 workers in 1939 to 8,710 by 1943 as Canada trains air crews for action.
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Canada
Harvard
RCAF
F.A.F
Noorduyn Aviation Limited
North American Aviation Incorporated
California
R.B.C
Delivered the Goods The Great North Africa Supply Run
The article recalls a massive logistics feat delivering supplies for the British First Army in North Africa last November. A train stretched 625 miles with trucks loaded to capacity in a non stop effort by workers, many lacking prior experience.
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First Army
North Africa
Tailor Credited With Origin Of Pica- Name Link
A fashionable tailor who called his home Picadilly Hall is credited with origin of the name Pica- in a concise note from local lore.
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Picadilly Hall
Pica
Polish Girl Joins Canadian Women's Army Corps in Nova Scotia
A Polish girl living temporarily as "Somewhere in Nova Scotia" became the first European guest child to enlist in the Canadian Women's Army Corps on May 15. She swore allegiance while undergoing basic training in Kitchener Ontario. Her family remains in Poland, and she hopes to aid both Canada and Poland despite wartime dangers.
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Canadian Women's Army Corps
Nova Scotia
Poland
Canada
Kitchener, Ont
Parachute Badge Adopted by Britain's Parachute Regiment
The Parachute Regiment has received a new cap badge to replace the Army Air Corps insignia it previously wore. The design features a parachute on spread wings with the Royal Crest above.
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Britain
Parachute Regiment
Army Air Corps
Royal
Uniforms for Fighting Forces Prove Complex in Size Range
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps tailors handle 32 stock sizes for uniforms yet extreme cases test limits. Joe E. Madore, a 46 year veteran tailor in Ottawa, notes a six foot eleven private with 41 chest, 36 waist, and 38 leg length and a four foot ten inch Ottawa recruit with 23 inch legs. The article highlights ongoing alterations and nationwide tailoring duties from RCOC depots, including a Sherbrooke soldier at five eight with 48 chest and 47 waist weighing 230 pounds. The 319 pound man later lost 40 pounds and returned for adjustments.
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Joe E. Madore
Joe
Madore
R.C.O.C
Sparks
Lyon Sts
Ottawa
Canada
Readin and writin among Japanese soldiers in WWII era
A fragment reports literacy gaps among Japanese troops and describes conscription, physical requirements, and pay. It notes 15 of 100 soldiers can read English, all can read their native tongue, with conscription stretching 70 years. It cites a lieutenant earning 21 dollars and 62 cents monthly and a colonel 79 dollars and 35 cents, with strict prebreakfast drills.
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U.S
Japan
Taking His Measure for Custom Army Uniforms
In Ottawa a Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps tailor shop fits soldiers with special sizes. Veteran civilian employee Joseph E. Madore takes neck measurements for Private Armand Heintzman of Toronto. Heintzman weighs 230 pounds, stands 6 feet tall, with a 45 inch chest and a 46 inch waist.
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Joseph E. Madore
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Armand Heintzman
Toronto
Ottawa R.C.C.C
Heintzman
Seed Conservation Urged For 1943 Alfalfa and Clover Crops
Nelson Young, Seeds Administrator, warns that Canada faces seed shortages for alfalfa red clover and similar high protein crops from the 1943 harvest. Farmers should save harvest and sell any surplus at ceiling prices to support Allied nations, while dairying groups are urged to conserve forage crops and still meet seed needs.
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Nelson Young
Mr. Young
Women fill railway jobs in Britain during war
In Great Britain, about 85,000 women have replaced men on railways taking roles as porters, ticket collectors, carriage cleaners, drivers, labourers, and signal and telegraph operators.
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Great Britain
North Leaders Complete Northland Tour With Canadian Pacific
W. M. Neal of Canadian Pacific and C P Air Lines with W. A. Mather and business men toured 7 miles of northern Canada from Dawson Creek to Edmonton. They visited Fort McMurray and Great Bear Lake, traveled Alaska highway, returned via Whitehorse and Dawson Creek, praising rapid development of Canada's resources under global warfare.
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Canada
Northland
W. M. Neal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Montreal
W. A. Mather
Winnipeg
Western Lines
Edmonton
Mackenzie River
Fort McMurray
Great Bear Lake
North Alberta Railways
Neal
Whitehorse
Dawson Creek
Northern Alberta Railways
Canadas Natural
H. E. Sellers
Manitoba National War Finance Committee
C.P.R
F. P. Brass
K.C
Quebec Legislative Council
Elia Mannix
W. M Neal
F. W. Ross
New RAF Emergency Kits Aimed at Airmen Downed At Sea
The RCAF introduces five emergency equipment types to aid airmen forced down on land, at sea, or in winter. Personal kits worn as a waist belt include rations, matches, signaling gear, and a medical bag. Plane kits double medical supplies and supply food for up to 28 days. Winter gear, dinghy kits, and an emergency radio for SOS are planned, with features like a sealable dinghy, signaling flares, and a Verey pistol option.
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R.C.A.F
Air Force Headquarters
Wartime tube recycling boosts supply for armed forces
The wartime prices and trade board Regina reports discarded toothpaste and shaving tubes aid the Axis war effort. One month of returned tubes could line water canteens in North Africa. Tin from tubes serves 20 water bottles. 250 tubes yield tin for a Bolingbroke bomber. In May collectors nationwide shipped over 13.5 tons of used collapsible tubes to smelters.
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Prices and Trade Board
Regina
Canada
Smielters
Aircraft Plywood Aimed at Strength and Saving Materials
Aircraft plywood is an engineered product meeting higher strength and performance standards. Last year 6,000,000,000 board feet were used to save 2,500,000 tons of aluminum, steel and copper and 200,000 tons of rubber. In 1943 the plywood program faces a bottleneck in obtaining high quality veneer and timber, prompting searches for alternative woods to replace hardwoods.
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New York
Why can a clock tick be heard but radio inaudible eight feet away
The contrast highlights how a ticking clock emits a steady, high‑contrast tick at a fixed frequency and amplitude that our ears easily detect, while a radio’s sound blends with ambient noise and fades with distance unless the volume is raised. Hearing depends on source loudness, distance, and sound quality.
Gibraltar Key Presented To Royal Canadian Engineers Unit
The tunnelling company of Royal Canadian Engineers who worked on the Empire’s Mediterranean fortress received a ceremonial honor when Lieut.-Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton presented each man with a “key to the rock” after their return to England.
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Royal Canadian Engineers
England
Empire
Mediterranean
A. G. L. McNaughton
G.o.c.-In
First Canadian Army
Luxembourg Prince Felix Visited London Amid Wartime Crisis
Occupation forces in Luxembourg include half a million Nazis occupying a 1000 square mile country with 300000 residents. Prince Felix of Luxembourg, now attached to the British army northern command, spoke at a London reception hosted by the Luxembourg Society. His eldest son John, heir to the grand duchy, serves as a private in the Irish Guards after being educated in England.
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Prince Felix of
Luxembourg
Canada
London
Luxembourg Society
Germany
Prince Felix
Northern Command
John
Grand Duke
Lauxembourg
Irish Guards
England
Do Over Your Room This Thrifty Way
Do over your room on a budget with step by step instructions for making dressing table skirts spreads and more. The article mentions pattern 7448 with directions for spreads and accessories and asks readers to mail twenty cents to the Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union for pattern 7448.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermott Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Britain’s Bombers Grow Heavier Bomb Loads by 1942
By September 1942 Britain's largest bombers carried about four times the bomb weight of the heaviest bombers at the war’s start. This rapid expansion reflects intensified aerial offensive capability and strategic bombing efforts early in World War II.
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Britain
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