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Orono Weekly Times, 16 Nov 1944, p. 3

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One of the largest and the inost-modernly equipped hospital ship i the world, the, "Letitîa", Sister ship ~of1 by the Germans i19-39, i ready fo~r her niaiden voyage to bring honw 'Ca-iadiaxn casuaities. The former Ir AlIed troops to the North Africa11, hs been rtýconvcrted to j i fi Lady Nels( ýàp . Cok G,-ý,YwScotland, skipper of the Letitiat, and tjz 2heAthenla, w4cc- Cornshof Vctoia, B. C,, officer commandling the Letitia. 2. Fu~ll view f rom_ the harborofteL hi floatng genèral hospital for a large Canadian city. 3. §irnilar to aiio p>raýing Yô~on i in any of ÇCaI"large Lt-o.S. A. Wallace, of Vancouver, B. C., chief-surgecon aboard, M~ajor A. E. akxiNiagara FaI Nursing Sisters A. F. Barker of Bancroft, Ont., and E. Hastings, of Toronto, The four discliss the latest ir moeîr dental office,1 Sgt. G. C'arernit of Montreal, dJental assist ant, hiShw peprneqpantfrt "4FAITH"ý BRINGS FLYING FORT HOME No wonder the crew whistled i amazernent whfen they surveyed the dainage to the "Dottie jane.' Only ragged pieces of theý tail (left> remaincd, and the nose off the shîp (right> had been shattered, The "l3ottie jane?ý' camne homn I for the last time and practicall,ý collapsed on thdje homeý base air- fend. She brought most of 1e last crew home safely-and wni t:o the junk heap. "'Aid' how," asked experiencedi pilots on thie field," d(d anyonc ever fly that bomrber in? A dispatch from tfiehe igit)i ý ' Army Air Force told of the "'Dot.j tie Jane.".... It had fou-ht its wav through YÏ

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