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Port Perry Star (1907-), 7 Dec 1944, p. 2

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py Fo SY ari rr St od Lp 4 ou Ay rh TRIPLETS: ALL BOY SCOUTS RSPR CT i Fn A a -- La "Pedi . hy RAY f . . acy, 4 an Bc.icved to be Canada's only triplet Boy Scouts, here are, left to AE] right, Charles, Edward and Henry Mansell, who are members of the 44th Windsor, Ont., Boy Scout Troop at St. Anne's Church. The triplets are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Mansell, of Tecum- seh, near Windsor. They were born in 1932. . na WT 'TROJAN HORSE'--MADE IN GERMANY po Rr Bp 3s rrr pA es TN SAINT I tt Sidi nm AREER SL SRY) Sd Ny of NRE Pe > An Allied ilyer examines a wcoden horse, one of a number of dummy farm animals which Germans scattered over an airfield in Holland to deceive Allied bombers, Our airmen weren't fooled for long. 1 . ALLIED SQUEEZE PLAY | WESTERN | FRONT Morhange Chateau-Salins [ J Dieuze pe AZ NEW PREMIER Jan "Kwapinsli, Socialist, above, who has held rank of premier, supplants Stanislaw Miko- lajczyk as premier of Poland, and has been charged with task of forming new government. Miko- lajczyk resigned after failing to win cabinet to his proposals for solving long-standing Polish-Soviet boundary dispute, NEW CHAMP Es Danny Webb, Canadian (overseas) featherweight champ, poses here for a Canadian' Army cameraman, He recently: won a three round de- cision over world flyweight cham. pion Jackie Paterson and London, England sport circles predict a - great future for the dark skinned, lad from Montreal. deputy _, have won him the Victoria officer atop a tank. Major David Vivian Curie of Moose Jaw, Sask, a Major David Vivian Currie, 33, of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Owen: Sound, Ont. became the seventh Canadian to win the Victoria Cross of this out of the Falaise pocket, Defence Headquarters announced, A peacetime automobile mechanic and welder, Major Currie valor in an action which started in the village of St. The citation said that all the officers under his co he was satisfied that the turnover was complete, he fell asleep on his feet and collapsed", Major Currie first attacked and seized the vil two German armies cut off in the Falaise pocket.' ed. enemy attempts. to force a breakthrough, ANOTHER CANADIAN WINS VICTORIA CROSS i nd Owen Sound, Ont, whose bravery and leadership in heavy fighting, near Falaise Cross, The pictures were taken in a fighting 'zone. They show, left, a closeup of Major Currie, and right, the an officer of the South Alberta Reconnaissance Regiment, war for blocking and holding one of the main German escape routes displayed the heroism that won him the Empire's highest award for Lambert. sur Dives Aug, 20 and continued for three days and three nights, mmand. were either killed or wounded and "when: his force was: finally relieved, and lage which was a key point of the Chambois-Trun escape route for the remnants of Heé held it:through' three: days and nights of continuous fighting, hurling back repeat His: strategy was: succesful in blocking the German escape route. ] PRETTIEST WAC Few will dispute the: choice of Yanks overseas who selected: Cpl, Ruby Newell, above, of Long Beach, Calif, as the prettiest WAC in the European' Theatre of Operations. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON oie mp / Map shows where French Army units, in a 19-mile advance, crashed rit 3 into the heart of Strasbourg splitting the German front in Eastern ! a. a France; while: General Patton's tanks drive to within 14 miles of A father. and son who. fight Germans together, as members of a Saarbrucken from the captured Metz area, In the south, mean- Russian. guerrilla. band, A. Volynets and his boy Nikolai, 13, are while, French First Army forces drive toward Colmar to: seal off' pictured in the newly-liberated town of Vileika. The father con- : the Nazi escape route across the Rhine. sidérs'his son one of his best scouts. . 1115 £ : iu Hh i RALSTON"S SON BACK FOR STAFF COURSE FACING: JAPS?. ait 3 .- . 2d, ye 1 y J 5 1 > \ SA A rs Se EF By » Following: announcement that he: + had been: "relieved of his) duties" y I in Mostow; Marshal: Klimenty J y , _. . n : f Verosthilov, above, one of the Red War Not Over Yet: Captain Stuart B. Ralston, son of Col. J. L. Ralston, C/M.G, D.SI0., former « Army's: greatest. soldiers, was : rev, niinister of 'national: defence : who resigned on November 1 from. the King Government; told reporters ported by. the: German-sontrolled: ; 4 tell the folks back here the war isn't over yet" at the Canadian Pacific Railway's. Windsor Station, udapest radio. to. have been .ap+ A ontreal, when he returned from overseas recently to go ona staff course at Royal Military College, pointed commander-in-chief of Rua- Kingston, Overseas since January of 1948 when he landed fn England as a lieutenant, Capt. Ralston, a cup of coffee from one of the volunteer workers of Canadian Legion War ck from R.C.A, Headquarters, and, Canadian Corps, with troops returned from shown here a Services, came ' sia's Far Eastern forces. If true, the move is seen as a hint of pos sible Soviet cooperation in the war against japan, i fla -\ " DITCHED! SAAN Ee 2 French infantryman: has 'this: Nazi where he wants him--in a ditch near Belfort, France: In: bullet-riddled car are: bodies of three of oy BY hou German's comrades whose flight ended in .sudden death. HE'S A BRAVE PIGEON: a Mrs. Albert V. Alexander, wife of the First Lord of the Admiraity, congratulates Pigeon' Gustav, after she had presented' the bird with thes Dickens: award for: bravery "in ceremonies in London, Eng: The award was made in. behalf of the Allied; Forces 'Mascot Club for bring back the first message from the Normandy: beaches. FULL GENERAL Roo ' This is'-a- new' picture' of' General - H. D! Gi Crerar;- CB, D.S.0; * General Officer Commanding:in< Chief, Pirst Canadian Army, who" has' been' promoted! to that rank - © from Lieut:-General, - by. staying ai £7 FORD HOTELS: Modern, = '§ Montreal Toronto and the LORD RE mM EAWA FOLDER webs | I ) FORD HOTELS CO. A SEY Montreal. : $739 to $350 per person, No higher! » per person | 100 lovely rooms with radio!' AF.84

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