Battleships Helped Infantry at Salerno Gulf
In London Calling Lt Commander Thomas Woodroffe explains how the Valiant and Warspite supported Salerno operations, sweeping mines, providing an air umbrella, and delivering crucial bombardments. The piece links these actions to a strategic shift, freeing ships for the Far East and signaling Italy’s exit as a major naval development.
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Salerno Gulf
Thomas Woodrofffe
R.N
London
Valiant
Salerno
Mediterranean
Gulf
United States
Italy
Japan
Far East
Malta
India
Suez
Burma
Ourselves
New Mosquito fighter bomber joins Berlin war effort
The Mosquito family adds a fighter bomber that blends high speed day and night bombing with long range fighter and intruder patrol roles. It carries a 1000 lb bomb load plus four cannons and four machine guns and can revert to the world’s fastest fighter after bombing. The aircraft is used as day and night bomber, fighter, reconnaissance bomber, and fast transport for urgent cargoes.
India enrolls 39000 trainees under technical training plan
The Labor Department reports thirty nine thousand trainees enrolled under its technical training initiative. The plan aims to boost skills across sectors and improve employment prospects.
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Technical Training Plan of
India
Labor Department
Army Division Daily Food Consumption Overseas
A single army division stationed abroad consumes about 75 000 pounds of food each day, reflecting the scale of supply needs for overseas deployments and sustained operations.
A British MP Says War Costs Civilization Vast Sums
A British member of Parliament estimates the conflict costs civilization 422 million dollars daily. He warns the price includes young lives and destroyed architecture and urges every person to share the responsibility to restore sanity and a better world beyond statesmen alone.
Father of English watchmaking Thomas Tompson
Thomas Tompson is known as the father of English watchmaking. A vast number of beautiful clocks and watches were made at his works during the latter part of the 17th century.
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Thomas Tompson
German Losses in North Africa Mark Major Luftwaffe Decline
Allied announcements report German air forces lost nearly 6,000 planes in a year of war against North Africa. The losses, described as a major blow to the Luftwaffe, come with Allied casualties around 1,500 and significant naval and bombing damages totals.
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Luftwaffe
Europe
Canadian Bomber Groups Name Squadrons in Britain
Canadian Bomber Group squadrons in Britain have adopted distinctive names beyond their numbers. Moose Squadron honors Wing Cmdr. John Fulton. Goose Squadron bears a Canada goose crest with the motto For Freedom. Thunderbird and Iroquois exist for others. Bluenose and Lion squads also shine with unique backstories. City of Bradford and Leaside Squadron complete the recent name set.
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T. C. McCall
R.C_A.F
England
R.C_AF
John
Moose) Fulton
D.S.O
Df.c
A.F.C
R.c.af
Tiny) Ferris
Edmonton
Canada
West
R.C.A.F
S. S. Blanchard
Brandon
Man
Thunderbird
Lancasters
W. H. Swetan
D.F.C
Kapuskasing
Ont
Cmdr
W. F
Bills) Newson
Victoria
B.C
C. E. Harris
Annapolis Royal
N.S
Maritime Provinces
Lion
R. S. Turnbull
D.F.M
Govan
Sask
Jay Chsanoff
Winnipeg
Bradford
J. A. P. Owen
Royal Air Force
City of Bradford
J. D
Pat” Pattison
Toronto
T.C.A.F
Cmdr. C. W. A. McKay
Vancouver
Leaside
Learning New Words in Wartime Dining for GIs
A British restaurant manager notes Americans adopted new terms during service. Staff hear requests for crackers as biscuits and syrup treacle or honey as molasses, with marmalade served with bacon or kipper at breakfast becoming common.
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Britain
Ironing a Shirt Taught to Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps receive training on everyday tasks including the careful ironing of shirts as part of their broad preparation for service.
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Canadian Women’s Army Corps
Cadets Learn Value of Good Citizenship in Training
A basic principle in Royal Canadian Army cadets training teaches youths the value of good citizenship and responsible conduct as a core element of their development.
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Royal Canadian Army Cadets
From small gun maker to millionaire in war orders
Carl Gustave Swebilius, a Hamden Connecticut tool and gun maker, rose from modest 1940 income to a 1941 42 annual income over a million dollars by supplying 25000 .50 calibre machine guns to Britain. A veteran designer since 1896, he helped develop the Browning machine gun and earned credit for a device enabling guns to fire between airplane propeller blades.
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Carl Gustave Swebilius
Hamden
Connecticut
Gus
U.S. Treasury
United States
Louis B. Mayer
Gus Swebilius
Sweden
John Moses Browning
Parachute Hero's Flight From Occupied France Ends in Old Farm
The New York Journal-American recounts an American pilot forced to bail out over France who begged a farmhouse widow to hide him. She hid him in women's clothes as he worked in the fields, then tried a ruse of delaying capture with a flirtatious date line as the pilot revealed his wartime escape.
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France
New York Journal-American
Dunkirk
Jaunty Beret and Pouch Pattern 7639
Instructions for a pliant beret and matching bag with flirtatious styling. Crochet both using a short yarn. pattern 7639 lists stitches and materials. Send twenty cents to Household Arts Department Winnipeg Newspaper Union 175 McDermot Avenue Winnipeg Man with name address and pattern number.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
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Leondon
Lincoln Cathedral
C.A
M. B. Barclay
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Montreal
C. D. Howe
Munitions and Supply
H. J. Symington
T.C.A
J. R. Baldwin
Privy Council
trans-Atlantic Air Service
R. F. George
Baldwin
Howe
Symington
Barclay
Air Force
Termoli
J. L. Jemmett
Kirkland Lake
Tpr
J. A. Reardon
Wetaskiwin
Alta
Germany
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Fortune
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