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Canada Salutes Her Armed Forces

GENERAL McARTHUR
... Allied Pacific Commander, whose
heroic defense of Bataan aroused the
world, and who is in charge of Allied
armed forces in Australia and Pacific
region.

Chiang Kai-Shek
. . . Chinese Generalissimo,
in charge of the Chinese
Armies, who have been hold-
ing the Japanese at bay for
nearly seven years.

Marshal Semyon Timoshenko
Commander of the Red Army

ems A platoon of heavily-armed Canadians leave their boat and splash through shallo raid, part of
now fighting back the tremendous Commando training (top left). Members of an assault squad of the West Nova Scotia, Heeineay t/Ont ad. “Scotty” Me-
onslaught on the Sevastopol Sec Bain, of West Bay Road, Inverness County, Nova Scotia, standing, and Cpl. V. A. Oickle, of Bridgewater, N.S. (in upper right)
look for trouble in a doorway during a “house-to-house” raid. In the photo at lower left, C: ¥ instructor, and
tion, and who gave the Nazi armies Sgt. M. Du Mouchel Foe ead tal enalstar tlie , Capt. G. Vanderlee, ;
J gt. M. Du Mouchel, reconnoitre, and signal eir men to ad vance for a final charge against the objective. On departing,
something to think about in the troops direct a final burst of fire at the cliff edge to keep the defenders from Pressing too closely, then they race across

Kharkov offensive. > beach to their craft.

Training For ‘Second Front’’

Lads of the “Highland Regiment” are pictured |§
in Commando dress during drill. Their faces are LIEUT-GENERAL A.G.L. McNAUGHTON
E Commander-in-chief: First Canadian

- blackened and their feet muffled in sacking. The ae
regiment to which they belong is formed of youngsters Axmy Overseas, who, it is reported, may
18 years old, who join up for intensive training until Jead an Allied invasion army soon to open

the day they are old enough to join the regiments of a Second Front in Western Europe. “The

their choice. They receive training in invasion Senne ae We ae utd

tactics, evidently preparing for when they will take to cross the channel again,” he stated re-
part in the “real thing”; the opening of a Second Front. cently,

Commando raid simulated in assault manoeuvres overseas