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women of the RCAF’s Para-Rescue units. Able to live for weeks in the
wilderness, these doctors, nurses, and their assistants stand ready to parachute
into otherwise inaccessible places to bring help to survivors of crashed aircraft
or to anyone else in need.
The RCAF today is very different from the fledgling force of 4,000 men
with which Canada entered the Second World War. Around that tiny force
the RCAF built, during the war, a powerful air armada of thousands of air-
craft, numbering in its ranks nearly a quarter of a million men and women.
Forty-eight RCAF squadrons saw action overseas, in every theatre of the
war, and many hundreds of Canadians served with the Royal Air Force.
At home, the RCAF operated several fighter and coastal squadrons, and at
the same time trained more than 131,000 aircrew under the British Common-
wealth Air Training Plan.
The skill and imaginative daring that enabled the RCAF to contribute
so much to the Allied victory exists in full measure today. Canadians are
proud of the achievements of their airmen, and confident that they will prove
to be worthy partners within the North Atlantic Community’s defensive
alliance.
Program Notes
COMMENTARIES: Commentaries
and news analyses follow news bulle-
tins Monday through Friday at 1700,
1845, and 2230 GMT. Speakers repre-
senting editorial staffs and university
departments comment on national
and international affairs.
Mondays: Max Freedman, Ottawa
correspondent of the Winnipeg Free
Press.
Tuesdays: Wilfrid Eggleston, free-
lance journalist and professor of
journalism at Carleton College, Otta-
wa.
Wednesdays: J. B. McGeachy of
the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Thursdays: Georges Langlois, parlia-
mentary correspondent for the Mont-
real Newspaper "La Presse”.
Fridays: Anne Francis, Ottawa com-
mentator (1700) and Peter Stursberg,
CBC correspondent at the United
Nations in New York (2230).
THIS WEEK — an economic and
social review, at 2245 each Thursday.
TALKS AND MAGAZINES:
Let’s Look at Science, Sundays at
1705 and 1850, in which reporters
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tell of significant developments and
Canadian contributions to scientific
knowledge.
Canadiana, a Saturday series heard
at 1710, in which radio essays and
stories reveal the atmosphere and
adventure of life in Canada.
Books and Shows, at 1715 on Sun-
days, continues with reports and
criticism about current events in
Canadian literature, art, music, thea-
tre and film.
Home and Community, at 2245 on
Tuesdays, brings personal observa-
tions by Canadians about their homes
and community activities.
A new series of talks about Canadian
industries, their history and develop-
ment as reflecting the growing in-
dustrial importance of this country,
will be given by Pierre Berton of
MacLean’s Magazine on Sundays at
2245 GMT.
CANADIAN CHRONICLE: Daily ex-
cept Sunday at 1715 hours GMT and
each Monday, Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday following the 2230
GMT news and commentary, this
series brings reports and actualities
of the people and happenings across
Canada.
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