Warspite the Old Lady of Two Wars
Lieutenant E Bisson recalls HMS Warspite life from Normandy to Salerno and Narvik. The famed battleship earned acres of honors across two wars, nicknamed the Old Lady by Admiral Cunningham, with crests changed to a green woodpecker and crews from varied lands.
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Warspite
Sir Walter Raleigh
Walcheren Island
Schoonveld
Britain
Narvik
Fjord
Jutland
Matapan
Madagascar
Salerno
Normandy
Royal Navy
Andrew Cunningham
Mediterranean
Highlands
Scotland
New
Europe
Erea
Kelsey
DSC. R.N
Western Canada Horse Auctions Set Record Prices
A record number of horses were offered at Western Canada annual sales with higher prices for top singles and teams. Brandon led with 197 horses sold, top $180 for a single and $305 for a team. Stettler sold 894 with tops $210 and $380. Lacombe 1035, tops $350 and $700. Regina 1380, top $255. Eastern buyers were strong for quality horses but avoided common or poorly trained animals, dragging average prices down. Queen Victoria's reign in England lasted 64 years.
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Canada
Brandon
Stettler
Lacombe
Regina
Reward for Distinguished Services in Aircraft Detection Corps
D. L. Howard, assistant manager at Canadian Pacific Railway Western Lines, receives a plaque for distinguished service to the Royal Canadian Air Force Aircraft Detection Corps. The citation notes his role from 1941 to 1943 in coordinating ADC communications and directing CPR facilities to enable rapid ADC report transmission along the Atlantic coast.
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D. L. Howard
Department of Communications
Canadian Pacific Railway
Western Lines
R.C.A F
Colin Gibson
National Defence
Air
Howard
Atlantic Seaboard
Mr. Howard
Montreal
Aircraft Detection Corps
Canadian Pacific
Atlantic
A.D.C
Air Force Headquarters
Canadian First Corps In Italy Sicily and Netherlands
The First Canadian Corps entered the flooded Netherlands battlefields after 19 months in the Mediterranean from July 1943 to February this year. It drove Germans from ridges in Sicily Sardinia and Italy, taking about 40 000 prisoners and covering 68 000 square miles. They suffered 5 341 dead 19 680 wounded and over 1 300 missing or captured. Nearly 100 000 Canadians served in the theatre, making a total casualty rate around 26 percent.
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Netherlands
Sicily
Italy
Mediterranean
Mountain Ridge
Sardinia
Edmonton Journal
Stamp purge to remove Nazi imagery in postwar Germany
The British military government orders the impounding and destruction of all postal and insurance stamps bearing Nazi leader images or war propaganda. Objectionable designs and war glorification are banned. A replacement stamp issue will be produced by the military government in the United States.
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Germany
United States
A Wonderful Thing and a Hun General Kesselring
A wartime note contrasts bureaucracy with speed as Kesselring waited in a train for three days while formalities were arranged to take him prisoner. The piece also notes fuel oil yielding heat equal to coal, stating one pound of fuel oil equals two pounds of coal.
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Kesselring
Trade Development urged between Canada and Britain
An Ottawa Citizen report quotes Colonel J. S. P. Armstrong urging a two way trade expansion within the British Empire. He argues Canada must diversify exports beyond Britain and the United States, stressing Britain’s need to buy and reconstruct, while Canada profits from a stabilized empire market.
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Britain
J. S. P. Armstrong
Otario
Engineering Industries Association
Birmingham
United States
Canada
British Empire
Colonel Armstrong
U.S.A
South America
France
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
USA
Europe
Ottawa Citizen
Tractors Surged in First Great War Production
During the First Great War farm tractor production rose sharply, increasing more than tenfold from earlier levels, reflecting wartime demands and agricultural modernization.
France and German Actions Blur Fate of Jewish and Gentile Children
The Hamilton Spectator reports on France during 1942 as Jewish children vanished under German occupation and collaborators. Gentile children faced brutal separation and deportation. some were hidden or fostered, while authorities set up a unit to locate and reunite children with parents. The piece notes limited chances of reunion and describes a nation coping as foster care becomes a substitute for lost families.
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Franc
Gestap
France
le Populaire
Jill
Germany
T Nation
Hamilton Spectator
Three Quarter Yard Sunsuit Pattern Data
Advertises a three quarter yard sunsuit pattern number 7497 with appliques and embroidered sprays for children. Provides ordering by sending two cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Manitoba and notes patterns may take longer to deliver. Mentions a historical line about a Roman tutor in 739 BC.
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Winnipeg
McDermot Avenue
Winn Man
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H.M.S. Warspite
USS. Texas
Nelson
Lang
New Zealand
Royal Air Force
Western Horse Sales
Victoria
England
Royal Canadian Air Force
First Canadian Corps
Bay War Savings
Abilene
Kansas
Ida Stover Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gestapo
Syria
Alice Brooks
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