The Seaforth News, 1943-07-22, Page 7THVBSPAY, 11Y 22, 1948
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BOYS WIlO BOMBED BERLIN -- TWO NIGHTS RUNNING
Picture shows; Members of a Lancaster bomber crew on their return
from the R,A.F.'s second consecutive night raid on Berlin on 17.1.43. On
16.L43 a heavy force of 4 -engined bombers left the city well ablaze, on the
second night bembs were again showered on the capital. 8,000 and 4,000
pounders were dropped. The Skipper of the Lancaster crew is a Canadian
flight -sergeant (third from left),
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Otte wa.—Boota, boots, boots! 300
pairs -of them a day roll down the
"rack and track" assembly repair -
line of the Royal Canadian Ordnance
Corps workshop at Kingsten, Ont.
Cobblers at Kipling's time would
bave been stunned at modern-day
mass production repair of Army
boos. Devised only a few weeks ago, the
rack and traelc method has increased
repair production from a daily out.
Pat of 186 boar; each day to more
than $00,
Boots are placed on a small wheel-
ed wooden rack, complete with all
materials needed for repairs. Launch-
ed on. their journey along the ramp,
the boots first receive attention of
the "stripper," who rips off worn
leather;a sole -builder next tacks on
soles, and a heel -builder affixes heels.
Following a sole -softening dip in the
mutling tank, soles are stitched, skiv-
ored and bevelled by three different
oachineS, before being trimmed,
sanded, polished and fitted with toe
plates. Final operation, as in other
assembly lines, is inspection, and if
boots don't please the critical inspec-
tor's eye, back they go. Finished and'
inspected, the hoots are shipped back
to their original wearers.
Sunny Sarcee, foothills military
camp near Calgary is playing. host to
a thousand Royal Canadian Army
Cadets from all parts of Alberta.
Anaesthesia, responsible for the
saving of untold thousands of lives,
is being intensively studied by medi-
cal authorities of the Canadian Arm-
ed Forces, on a special course being
conducted by two Montreal special-
ists, Dr. Wesley Bourne and Dr. M.
Digby Leigh.
Since inauguration of the course
a year ago, three classes comprising
16 medical officers of the three ser-
vices, have graduated. The fourth
course, which marked enrollment of
the largest class to date: five Army,
four Navy and four RCAF 'medical
officers, began on July 3rd. Thor-
ough training in anaesthesia, inhala-
tion therapy, shock treatment, the
use of blood and blood substitutes
and resuscitation will be stressed,
Caudal analgesia, given wide atten-
tion recently for its use in painless
childbirth, is also taught. It is used
in surgery on the lower torso and
lower limbs.
"There will be great strides made
in painless childbirth after the war,"
HEAVY GERMAN TANK LOSSES IN BATTLE FOR BOU ARADA.
On the 18th January, 1943, the Germans launched a tank attack on Brit-
isb. positions at Bou Arada. British forces had planned an attack on German
W positions for the next day and 26 pounders were already concealed in a small
wood. The German tanks, advancing across the p11n canoe within point,
blank range of these British guns and 17 were knocked out. German He. 1295
dive-bombed British armaur only succeeding in inflicting slight damage on
one tank, A Ne. 129 was shot 'down. Picture shows: Four destroyed German
tanks at Bou Arada. The German positions are in the background hills.
Dr. Bourne declared, "but now we
are more interested in applying the
technique to saving lives on the
battlefields,"
Last May 15, a young Palish girl
solemnly took the oath of allegiance
and a few moments later became the
first European guest child to enlist in
the Canadian Women's Army Corps,
The brief ceremony culminated al-
most four years of Impatient waiting
for the timemhen she would be of
age to enroll.
She came to Canada from Poland
late in 1938 to vlsit.an aunt, During
her visit Nazi hordes goose-ateppecl
into her homeland and touched off
the first explosion of the global war.
Her parents sent word for her to re-
main in Canada, and since that time
she has lived for the day when she
could take an active part in the war.
She is now realizing her ambition
and wears the uniform of the CWAC.
She is undergoing her basic training
at Kitchener.
Pursued by German bombs in both
France and England, courageous
Pte, Germaine Rochette, now return-
ed to Canada, has enlisted in the.
Canadian Women's Army Corps, and
-intends to carry on her private war
Kasserine Pass a Death Trap For Retreating Axis Forces
When Axis forces which thrust to the outskirts of Thala came in contact with U.S. troops _reinforced by an
armoured brigade, the Hampshire Regiment and the Coldstream and Grenadier Guards, they were forced back
after two days of heavy fighting in the direction of the Kasserine Pass. Enemy armour, the 21st Panzer Division,
suffered heavy tank losses and failed to make the expected stand at the mouth of the Pass. Two companies of
Grenadiers took Bren-Gun Carriers over ten miles of moUitainous country to the mouth of the Pass reaching their
objectives in 5% hours, only to find the enemy still retreating. Allied bombers rained high explosives into the
narrow Passwhich was turned into a deatit trap for the Germans. Picture shows: The Grenadiers supported by
Breti,Gun Carriers covering the mountain slopes during tho reconnaissance.
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R.A.F. Serviding Commandos
With minntect of an enemy's aerodrome's capture by the Allies, MAI', Servicing Commandos in the Mediter-
ranean area have made it serviceable for Allied aircraft. These men are specially trained by Britain's Combined
Operations Command to disembark from landing craft with full equipment and motor transpoi.t, to take pre.
cautions against booby traps left by the enemy and 10 carry out their work of clearin gand defending captured
aerodromes under all conditions likely to be met with in the early stages of assault lauding operations. They are
of course fully trained in normal Royal Ale Force trades, Picture shows: As One scivad of &AR'. Servicing Com-
mandos works on a grounded fighter, a new group arrives to land support. 1'lie lorry carries starter trollies, tools,
and the men and their kits,
With Hitler's minions in an Army
uniform. 'Shortly after war broke
out, action -seeking Germaine Roch-
ette sailed for France. There she
took a first-aid course, and had just
begun making use of it in Paris,
when imminent occupation of the
city made it necessary to leave.
Crossing the channel to England she
worked with the Belgian consul, find-
ing shelter for hundreds of Belgian
refugees.
During that time, Mies Rochette
eye -witnessed the Battle of Britain.
Twice narrowly escaping Nazi bombs
her most harrowing experience oc-
curred when a hospital in which she
was a patient'was bombed and a
wing was destroyed. Her health
failed and she returned to Canada,
But the Writ which had taken her
across an ocean was equal to the ill-
ness and after a few months' recup-
eration, she successfully met the
standard for enlistment in the
CWPteAC..Rochette is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rochette of
Montreal. She has two brothers serv-
ing in the Canadian Army.
An ranks of the Canadian Army,
;both overseas and in Canada, are to
be re-examined under the new Pal -
'hems medical classification system.
Standards will, however, not be
slackened. Men rejected for Army
Service as physically unfit will not
find admission standards less rigid.
Main purpose of the new system is
to provide allocation officers with
reference charts which will indicate
at a glance the physical abilities or
disabilities of any given soldier. Au-
tomatic machines will classify infor-
mation on Army personnel. Listed in
addition to Pulhems rating is each
man's regimental number, year of
birth, knowledge of languages, "M"
test score, rank, military trade or
specialty and trade grouping. They
will identify his unit and state the
amount of training he has under-
gone.
Mrs. D. Stoddart, Goderich —
After a long illness, Ethel Grace
Jeffroy, wife of David Stoddart, God-
erich, passed away on July 2nd, at the
age of fifty-five years. Mrs. Stodard
was born at Bayfield, the daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Andrew JefErey, and
had been a resident of Goderich the
last 24 years. Besides her husband,
she leaves six sons: Robert, of Cha-
tham; Sergt. Harvey, RCASC, in
Nova Scotia; Pte. William, ROASC,
overseas; Carl, John and Raymond,
of Goderich; and two dalighters, Mrs.
Clare Kennedy, of Walkerton, and
Irene, at home. Surviving sisters are
Mrs. Erwin Bricker, of Preston, Mrs;
Bert Trim, of Detroit, and Miss
Gladys Jeffry, of Newbury, Ont.
Fruit Pulp To Overcome Scarcity of
.131ood Plasma
How, the peel of oranges, grape-
fruit and lemons may soon bolster
the deposits in our hard pressed
blood baulz, due to pectin in the cit.
rite rind which has properties as a
shock preventer and a substitute for
the diminished reserves of human
blood needed for our American sold-
iers, will be told in The American
Weekly with his Sunday's (July 25)
issue of The Detroit Sunday Times. '
A week after a Small boy had
started school he said: Mummy, tea-
cher was asking me all about you
and daddy, and if I had any broth-
ers or sisters."
'I am so glad she Is taking so
mtich interest,' replied her mother.
"What did you tell her?"
"I said I was an only child,"
"What did she say to that," his
mother asked.
"Just, 'thank goddnees.'
Want and For Sale ads, 3 weeks 50c,
British Naval Air Gunner off to Attack Enemy Shipping
A Royal Naval Air Station, 1.1,M.S. Sparrowhawk, is the H.Q. of the big-
gest existing squadron to which catapult aircraft in 13ritish warships belong.
These are mostly Walrus seaplanes, but the naval airmen must be familiar
with a dozen other varieties, Skuas, Rees, Fulmars and Swordfish. Many
Swordfish torpedo attacks have been launched against enemy ships, by
R.N.V.R's usually about 22 years of age who, however, are often veterans of
many a daring attack on enemy craft. There is a constant flow of aircraft to
and from the 'ship'. Here the Fleet Ships receive their aerial replacements,
send their aircraft for repair, and exchange air personnel. Picture shows: A
"Swordfish" air gunner of the British Fleet Air Arm.
VC -FOR LIEUT. COL. TTJRNER — EBRO OF ALAMEIN BATTLE
The Victoria Cross has been awarded to Major (temp. Lt. Colonel) V. B.
Turner for his part in the gallant action of a unit of the Rifle Brigade during
the early stages of the Alamein battle. He led his men regardless of his own
safety When the unit was cut off and heavily attacked by many enemy tanks.
An anti-tank battery under his command destroyed 37 tanks and put out of
action at least 2D more, Although badly wounded, he went from gun to gun,
helping to load, to Carry ammunition and to encourage his men, refusing aid
until he became so weak from loss of blood that his orders to leave him
alone could be disobeyed and his head bandaged up. He was placed in the
scant shelter of some bushes, but even there insisted on being kept in tuock
with the battle by means of a running commentary. The picture shows: Lt.
Colonel Turner, V.C.
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