Harvard Is Now The Advanced Trainer Plane In Canada’s Air Scheme
The Harvard AT-14 trainer dominates Canada’s wartime air training. A bright yellow all metal two seater, it features duplicate controls, night flying gear, camera and machine guns for practice, cockpit heating, and a 42 foot wingspan. Noorduyn Aviation built them under license. production grew from 142 workers in 1930 to 8,710 by 1943 as Canada and the RCAF pressed for fast trainer aircraft.
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Canada
Enfiéres
Harvard
Canedz
Ram
RCAF
R.A
Axia
Air
Noorduyn Aviation Limited
North American Aviation Incorporated
California
R.B.C. Noorduyn
Flying Dutchman
Ottawa
Rc.a.f
Noorduyn
North American
Delivered the Goods Pack Harsh North Africa Supply Line
A massive non stop effort carried by troops and volunteers to supply the British First Army in North Africa. The operation stretched to 625 miles of fully loaded trucks moving supplies landed last November. Most workers had little previous related experience.
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First Army
North Africa
Tailor Credited With Origin Of Place Name Pleadily Hall
A fashionable tailor who called his home Pleadily Hall is credited with originating the name Pita. The fragment suggests a local legend linking a tailors dwelling to the etymology of a place name.
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Pita
Polish Girl Enlists First European Guest Child in Canada’s Army
A Polish girl living in Nova Scotia with a concealed name joined the Canadian Women's Army Corps on May 15 after arriving in Canada in 1938 to visit an aunt. She pledged allegiance while undergoing basic training in Kitchener Ontario, seeking service for Poland and Canada amid wartime fear for her family.
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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 receives a new cap badge replacing the Army Air Corps badge it shares. The design features a parachute on spread wings with the Royal Crest above, signaling its distinct identity within the Armed Forces.
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Britain
Parachute Regiment
Army Air Corps
Royal
Uniferm Supply Struggles With Varying Soldier Sizes
A Ottawa RCOC tailoring unit handles diverse uniforms for Canada’s fighting forces. Joe Madere, veteran tailor with 46 years’ experience, operates at Sparks and Lyou Streets, fitting soldiers from 53 inch chests to 55 inch chests and 319 pound ends. The largest recruit stood 6'11" with 41 inch chest and 36 waist. the smallest was 4'10" with 234 inch leg? The article notes ongoing alterations as soldiers’ measurements shift with service.
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Canadian Ordnance Corps
Joe E. Madere
Joe
Madore
R.c.0.c
Sparks
Lyou Sts
Ottawa
Canada
Joseph E. Madore
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Armand Heintzman
Toronto
Ottawa R.C.C.C
Heintzman
Japanese Conscription and Army Life Details
The article notes that one in every hundred Japanese soldiers can read English, while all can read Japanese. Conscription has lasted 70 years with yearly intake of young men meeting height and weight limits, and equal numbers of reservists returning to civilian life. A first lieutenant earns 21.62 dollars monthly and a colonel 79.35 dollars, with officers reporting at 5 a.m. in cold, barefoot, regimental halls for drills.
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U.S
Japan
Seed-saving urged as 1943 crops face shortage
Nelson Young Seeds Administrator warns that alfalfa red clover and related seeds from the 1943 crop must be saved and harvested in quantity. Surplus seed should be sold at retail ceilings to ensure fair returns. Dairies should conserve, aiding Allied nations, while Britain reports 85000 women replacing men on railways in porter roles and more.
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Canada
Nelson Young
Mr. Young
North Impresses Business Leaders on Canadian North Voyage
W M Neal of Canadian Pacific Railway and CP Air Lines led a party visiting Fort McMurray and Great Bear Lake radium deposits. They toured from Dawson Creek to Edmonton via Whitehorse and Alaska highway, then returned by rail. The trip showcased northern development amid wartime energy and resource growth.
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Canada
Northland
W. M. Neal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Air Lines
Montreal
W. A. Mather
Winnipeg
Western Lines
Fort McMurray
Great Bear Lake
Edmonton
North Alberta Railways
Mr. Neal
Whitehoree
Dawson Creek
Esherrea Railways
New Type Of Emergency Kit For Airmen Forced Down At Sea
The RCAF unveils five new emergency equipment types to protect airmen who are forced down on land, sea, or in winter. Personal kits worn as a waist belt include rations, matches, medical supplies, signaling tools, and a heat-producing chemical. plane kits double medical supplies and add cooking gear for 28 days for one or a week for four. A winter gear set for cold landings, a dinghy kit with signaling gear, a small emergency radio on board, and a water-ready package under the dinghy with distress signals, green signaling matches, and a radio mast complete the rescue kit. The underwater kit features a water‑tight cover, Morse or SOS signaling, and bright markers for visibility. The radio operates on 500 kilocycles for distress signals if needed.
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RCAF
Air Force Headquarters
Wartime tubes aid for Axis fight revealed in Regina
The wartime prices and trade board in Regina disclosed that discarded toothpaste and shaving tubes are crucial to war effort. One month of returned tubes could line water canteens for North Africa campaigns, with tin from a single ointment tube lining 20 bottles. From 250 tubes, tin for one Bolingbroke bomber is obtained. In May, Canadian collectors shipped over 13 tons of used collapsible tubes to smelters.
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Prices and Trade Board
Regina
Canada
Aircraft Plywood Helps Save Materials Amid War Demand
The aircraft plywood program used 6,000,000,000 board feet last year to save 2,500,000 tons of aluminum, steel and copper and 200,000 tons of rubber. In 1943 it faces a veneer bottleneck and seeks substitute woods as hardwoods run short.
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New York
Why clocks tick echo while radios fade at eight feet
The ticking sound of a clock is a constant, low-frequency pulse that travels well through air and reaches our ears with little interference. Radio sound relies on higher frequencies and suffers attenuation, background noise, and distance loss, so it requires greater volume to become audible at eight feet.
Prince Felix of Luxembourg Visits London Amid Occupation Harshness
Occupation forces in Luxembourg have driven most of the population to Germany to work in war plants. Prince Felix, new guest of honor in London, serves as a colonel in his country’s army under Nazi occupation. His son John, heir to the throne, is a private in the Irish Guards and was educated in England.
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Prince Felix of
Luxembourg
Canada
London
Luxembourg Society
Germany
Prince Felix
Northern Command
John
Grand Duke of
Irish Guards
England
Do Over Your Room This Thrifty Way
Satisfy that urge to do over your room with budget friendly, step by step instructions. Learn to make skirts and spreads and accessories from packing box table and other items. Pattern 7448 offers directions for spreads and dresses plus mail order pattern details from Winnipeg pattern department.
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Household Arts Department
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Avenue
Winnipeg
Man
Bombers Double Bomb Load By September 1942
By September 1942 Britain's heavy bomber fleet carried about four times the bomb load of the heaviest bombers at the war's start, reflecting rapid growth in offensive air power and expanded strategic capabilities.
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Britain
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Quebective Council
Royal Canadian Engineers
Empire
Mediterranean
A. G. L. ArcNaughton
G.o.c.-In
First Canadian Army
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