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The Seaforth News, 1944-07-27, Page 3The Buffalo. Goes to War BUFFALO which roamed the plains of Western Canada in the days, of the pioneer settlers are now a factor in the war effort of the United Nations. At many points along the lines of the Canadian Na- tional Railways salvage dumps, as shown above, have been established to which farmers bring the skulls and bones of buffalo as well as Moose and elk antlers, some of them long since turned up by their ploughshares. Bones are valuable in making ammunition. le Scrap iron and steel from dis- carded farm machines are also hauled to the railway sidings by farmers and their families to be delivered to the Government scrap depots, This youngster, at right, 1s busy in the war salvage job at Borradaile In Alberta. DESPATCH RIDER TAKES COVER Delivering important front line messages, this despatch rider was fired on by snipers. He pulled to the side of the road and teak cover while his Canadian comrades flushed the Nazi ... then he carried on, Incident: France, 1944. BASTILLE DAY IN NORMANDY Near the ruins of a shell -shattered church in the Caen area, Major S. .Laramee,.of Montreal, is shown conducting a Bastille Day Ser- vice held jointly by Canadian troops and French villagers. PARACHAMP 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 680 parachute jumps, including the women's re- cord one of 98,800 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 Chamorro cemetery, near Garapan. GIS ARE PALL -BEARERS FOR GENERAL ROOSEVELT Eight GI pall -bearers carry 'the flag -draped casket of Gen. Theodore Roosevelt to his flnal 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 street of the blasted Nazi strong -point. Left to right: Pte. F. P. Harwood, Turtleford, Sask.; Flight Officer j, D. Orr, Vancouver, and Capt. H. L. Jones, Regina. The bottle of wine was given hem by a liberated Frenchman. • "HEY SK NNEY! COME ON UP, THE AIR'S FINE A FAR CRY F OM THE L' SWIMMING HOLE" OFF TO CAMP FOR AIR CADETS Air Cadets are in camp for two weeks on air flying training schools where they will have the opportunity to fly with R.C.A.F. aircrew trainees. They will get trips_ in the Anson. and Harvard training planes providing they have the consent of their parents. Cadets at Camp Borden and Hagersville will be under canvas. Those at Brantford, 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, 18. The layout illust,Iates that portion of summer camp now holding the spotlight for the cadets. In No. 1 from the copilot's seat the Flight sergeant, the envy of the rest fo his mates, gets the gun from an expert, the officer pilot, before the boys take off. No. 2, What a thrillr Seated in the front cockpit of a Harvard the cadet gets an uninipeded view as he flies the skies. The pilot operates the aircraft from the rear cockpit. No, 3. -- The cadet sergeant with full accoutrement, harness, chute and head -set climbs on the wing to take his seat in the forward 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 Maris 5 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 Ieft can be seen the radio transmitter -receiver and to the right the chutes neatly arranged lir racks.