THE POST, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1944 s Of The Allie | Prelude to Invasion Canadian Soldier Dreams Of Return SLEEP, MY SWEET, I’LL SOON BE BACK. While the train rolls on, bound for an eastern port, this rench Canadian soldier dreams of the day when he will be returning to his baby girl, who with the rest of his small family, accompanied him as far as the embarkation point to wave farewell. Canada has now over 190,000 men gussysas with wer 250000 on active Service in the North American area. It is ready to go into action as a whole or as individual formations fighting in separate theatres of war, whenever th i cf the United ‘Nations give the word. : Ever Ihe Suniel Mame rr . Photo from Yank, Army Weekly GREEK SAILORS hoist a depth charge into place aboard the Greek destroyer Kanaris, escorting a United Nations convoy in the Mediterranean. First warship to enter Augusta’s harbor in the Sicilian campaign, the Kanaris has been in most J uggernaut in the Jungles : major engagements since the North African landings. Some 6145 Greek naval LUXEMBOURG SOLDIERS scale a sea wall on the English Coast as they train with the Belgian Army for their part in the invasion of Europe from the West. The cliffs and escarpments of the Norman and Breton coasts will prove no obstacle to these men, who escaped from their tiny country after it 0 was overrun by the Germans in 1940 and are eagerly awaiting the day when it will once more be liberated, : - THE YANKEE DIGGER officers and men hope soon to be fighting in the Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean seas. Recording Enemy Casualties STRIKING at dawn, Australian foot soldiers, screened by Matilda tanks, captured Sattelberg village on the northeast coast of New Guinea last November, thus consolidating for United Nations forces the strategic Vitiaz Strait which separates New Guinea from New Britain. The tanks, flown into the jungle and in battle for the first time, surprised the Japs, speeded the fall of their stronghold. WN ° n ° Bundles for Berlin” for Early Delivery pr “SIGHTED SUB; SANK SAME.” Those historic words of another sinking could be applied, perhaps, to the elimination of many another U-boat in the North Atlantic. Recording the casualties of enemy undersea craft is this young woman of the Royal Canadian Air Force on a large scale map at Eastern Coast headquarters. Established in July, 1941, the @ ' > American and Australian soldiers fighting together in New . Guinea against the Japs are out of the same mold. They call them | “rugged and ready.” This chap, so typically Australian, is really a typical American with a borrowed Digger hat. He is Lieut. Delbert | C. Hurd of Omaha, Neb, member of an American Engineering regiment, ® > ! _ YANKEE SWING GUNNERS and hopes to have 20,000 by the end of 1943, tu Greek Guerillas frou a position of little importance, the Royal Canadian Air Force, in four years, has risen to become the fourth greatest striking force in the United Nations. Now, with thirty-six fighter and bomber squadrons overseas and with many of her men serving in the R.A.F., the baby of the services has won this tribute from a writer: “Cer- tainly a healthier, tougher infant never raised hell all over Europe.” Behind her air force in the task of de- stroying Germany’s industrial might, the people at home are working at maximum production turning out “bundles for Ber- lin”. Shown in the illustrations is a lug, HIDING IN THE CRAGS and ravines of the island of Crete, Greek gueril- : 3 las, augmented by small bands of Australian, British and New Zealanders, just after Japanese air raiders have been driven away from the at top right, being welded to a five hun- : ; have carried on an incessant fight against the Germans since their country beach in the Finschafen, New Guinea area. Their gun is named dred pound bomb; below, are others be- A " ; fell to the invaders in 1941. This is the first picture of these men to reach “Hot Music.” And Burgess commented: “Boy, Could they swing it.” ing filled with TNT. Just to give some idea of the size of one of these completed calling cards, an attractive the United States. It shows them wearing the traditional headdress and boots worker, at top left, stands beside the finished product. S j d of the Island fighters. An Australian soldier, Pvt. K. J. Burgess, visits two Connecticut anti-aircraft gunners, Pvts. Stanley Ponoski and Angelo Sportino, R.C.A'F. (Women’s Division) had enlisted more than 11,000 by May 1, ~ lel A TT mmo ES AS FLA AN sy PS ——n es en a p———
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