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Port Perry Star (1907-), 27 Jul 1944, p. 3

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Pathetically pushiff a hand cart with all Battle of Caen, re-enter their blasted city, ° ¥ to be here to welcome our liberators", the old man said, their worldly goods, these French refugees, from the wrested from the Nazi by Canadian troops. "We wanted Canadian self-propelled armour on the Caen fron CANADIANS ROLL INTO. CAEN t moves into the outskirts of the city, speeding through clouds of dust raised by falling rubble. ' ONE MORE NAZI WIPED OUT With his. Tommy gun blazing and supported by two comrades, this Canadian clears out last remnants of a: German shiper nest in Caen. Their weapons held ready for instant gétion Canad CANADIAN INFANTRY MOVE INTO CAEN 4 do 1 chi mena CR 0 v 2a 3 PER i SRB ian Infantry .move after the Normandy town fell to a British-Canadian drive, Past Wrecked: Buildings the men mopping up the last of the Germana. AY Tp rr pt rg 4m, 2 7 into the shattered town of Caen advance H) t Ta 3 " Sil SRE BRUNE 334 RL. Pvt. Marie McMillin, world's champion woman parachute jump- er, is pictured as she celebrated a year's service in the WAC. She is now chief. of a section of riggers at the parachute school in Ft. Ben- ning, Ga. Veteran of 690 parachute jumps, including the women's re- cord one of 28,800 feet at Cleveland Air Races in 1932, she hasn't made one since the day - before Pearl Harbor, : THANKSGIVING During a lull in the terrific fighting on Saipan, that produced a record number of American casualties, a devout Yank fighter kneels before a shrapnel-punctured shrine in the f Chamorro cemetery, near Garapan. " Eight GI pall-bearers carry t he flag-draped casket of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt to his final resting place in the military cemetery at St. Mere Eglise, France. ---- A TOAST TO VICTORY The Army and the Air Force drink a toast to the capture of Caen by Canadians in a strect of the blasted Nazi strong-point. D. Orr, Vancouver, Frenchman. Left to right: Pte. F. P: Harwood, Turtleford, Sask.; Flight Officer J. and Capt. H, L. Jones, Regina. The bottle of wine was given them by a liberated aircrew trainees,' providing they the spotlight for the cadets, yea They will get trips in the Anson and Harv ave the consent of their parents, Cadets at Camp Bbrden and Hagersville will be under canvas, Those at Brantfor , Centralia, Trenton, Dunnville and Fingal will live in station quarters, All schools except Fingal are service flying training schools, Fingal is a bombing and gunnery centre, Groups will go to camp at two-week intervals until Aug, 186, The layout illustrates that portion of summer camp now holding 8, In No. 1 from the co-pilot's seat the Flight sergeant, the efivy of the rest fo his mates, gets the gun from an expert, the officer pilot, before the boys take off. OFF TO CAMP FOR AIR CADETS Air Cadets are in camp for two weeks on air flying trai schools where they will have the opportunity to fly with ard training planes FROM THE OL' SWIM inin R.CA, "HEY SKINNEY! COME ON UP, THE AIR'S FINE A FAR CRY No. 2. What a thrill! Seated in the front cockpit of a Harvard the cadet gets an unimpeded view as he flies the skies, The pilot operates the aircraft from the rear cockpit, No. 3, -- The cadet strgeant with full accoutrement, harne chute and head-set climbs on the wing to take his seat in the forwar. .cockpit, Flying in the RCAF's- best known training plane, a top notch pilot at the controls and the cadet himself part and parcel of the whole business, ; No. 4, -- The porthole:like window of the Anson Mark § makes a fitting frame for the happy cadet taking his flip under expert RC AF supervision, No. 5. -- Inside the aircraft are the cadets. Looking towards the nose the picture shows three of the cadets inside the Anson while in flight, at the left can be seen the radio transmitter-receiver and to the right the chutes neatly arranged in racks, / -- MING HOLE" a, or re rw > Ye a SENT POSE fe Ps - -- TR ne i ~~ - gi RI ESE --s md Ap rn vom TX DE

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