Slightly confused 1st Infantry Division invades Sicily against "bewildered" and "sorry looking" Italian defenders[3]
Film: Canadian and U.S. troops train for Italian invasion[4]
Film: Canadian soldiers and nurses embark for Italian invasion[5]
Cartoon: Axis forces quickly retreating from "Sicilian landings"[6]
Command crucial, but battles are won "by human beings displaying judgment, coolness and courage" (and in Sicily's "unending heat")[7]
Seaforth Highlanders take Monte San Marco in Italy, despite steep, muddy terrain and intense German fire[8]
Top German generals recognize disadvantages fighting Allies in Italy, including "Canadians clever at making use of terrain"[9]
Canadian infantry and tanks press "a literally yard-by-yard advance" through Ortona streets, houses, and even rooms[10]
Film: Canadian troops fighting in Ortona[11]
Germans leave Ortona and their dead – "Civilians[...]too dazed to realize the enemy had gone; Canadians[...]too tired to care"[12]
Guide for battlefield first aid emphasizes combat practicality, like common sense, self-reliance, improvisation, effective care and carrying on fight[13]
Newspaper illustration of RCAF Spitfire planes strafing freight trains in Europe[14]
Photo: Canadians in joint landing operation with U.S. forces against Japanese invaders on Kiska Island, Alaska[15]
"The Jewish reservoir of the East, which was able to counterbalance the western assimilation, no longer exists"[16]
At end of fourth year of war, Prime Minister King calls for greater effort and sacrifice to defeat faltering Axis[17]
National registration certificate of Mrs. Ethel Louise Buck, Spirit River, Alberta[18]
"We are few, very few" – Quebecker laments that there are not enough pacifists in province to even produce their newsletter[19]
Advisory group chair foresees postwar period of more skilled labour, greater production, new products and technology, and huge demand[20]
U.S.-U.K. agreement creates executive committee with Canadian representation to guide nuclear development[21]
Canada wants multilateral general agreement to reduce tariffs, and to encourage U.S.A. and Canada to "buy in order to sell"[22]
Report with proposed economic reforms for benefit of Prairie provinces, adjacent U.S.A., and world at large[23]
Canada threatens to step back if not given more say in new UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization[24]
Lester Pearson complains to External Affairs about U.S. censorship of official's call from legation in Washington to Ottawa[25]
Government returns about 15% of seized Japanese-Canadian fishing fleet to owners[26]
"So reactionary to Liberal principles" – PM King depressed by cabinet's close-minded attitude to steelworker strike[27]
Cartoon: Hitler says of strikers, "They are really working for me!"[28]
Communist Tim Buck's submission on labour relations to National War Labor Board emphasizes wage policy and collective bargaining[29]
Because of their difficulty finding housing and jobs, British Columbia MLA raises funds for halfway house for women discharged from mental institutions[30]
As they fund-raise for bombers, London's Women's Voluntary Services thanks Manitobans for gifts of clothes and mobile canteens[31]
"You can't refuse this cake, it was sent me all the way from Canada" – touring WVS speaker enjoys local hospitality[32]
"Defend[ing] freedom and culture of humanity" – Shostakovich's thank-you for Toronto performance of his Seventh Symphony[33]
Photo: RCAF member meets famed actor who plays "Rochester" on Jack Benny's radio comedy show[34]