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Teacher becomes pupil in war plant: Greta Huffman, teacher at Roden public school, gets a lesson in fuse-filling from Doris Frost, supervisor at General Engineering. Greta is one of 400 school teachers who are spending the summer helping to speed up the production of shells for the invading armies.

Picture, 1944
At the General Engineering Co. plant at Scarboro and the Defence Industries Ltd. plant at Ajax, 3,400 women workers are needed to help make shells so that the guns can be kept in action. Margaret Miller, fuse maker at General Engineering, asks for help to fill the gaps in the line - to keep the guns supplied.

Picture, 1944
This woman laughed when she had seen the film of the Belsen and Buchenwold brutalities once; so a British officer orders her back into the theatre for a second view of horrors

Picture, 1945
Women War Criminals on trial with other Nazis at Lueneberg; Germany; sit in the prisoners dock; wearing identification numbers; and listen to the procedings. Identifiable are; (8) Herta Ehlert; a warden at Belsen; (9) Irma Grese; assistant to Josef Kramer; the Beast of Belsen; (10) IIse Lithe; warden of Belsen

Picture, 1945
Airborne troops are landing all around this German woman and her children who have taken refuge in a fox hole on the Rhine's east bank.

Picture, 1945
Completely Clad in Germany garb; even to the helmet; this Polish woman on guard at Haren camp is here inspecting the identity card of Driver William Massey; St. Mary's. Her own uniform was beyond repaid

Picture, 1945
This Japanese Woman with her baby strapped to her back is getting ready for the U.S. occupation troops. She's cleaning a window in Atzubi barracks in Tokyo now occupied by the 1st Cavalry Divison

Picture, 1945
Lining up in Berlin; men; women and children wait before a potato pile in a street to receive their rations of potatoes. Two women supervise the distribution as they fill empty bags with shovels. Food is scarce in the German capital and there are few buildings suitable for districbuting centres. Allied vehicles carry food to the city

Picture, 1945
Woman's place; said the Nazis; was in the kitchen. Now it is in the ruins of the whole house. They are doing; as the streets show; a good job of cleaning up and tackling the piles of rubble that once were buildings. and with German hausfrau efficiency formed an efficient bucket brigade.

Picture, 1945
Toronto me; women; boys and girls who pass aptitude tests find themselves building planes. Starting her test is Jean Secor.

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Miss Bussell and Miss Cumberland try aiming the gun. These big weapons use vast amounts of shells, firing them 40,000 feet into the air; each automatically timed to burst by an intricate fuse. More shells of all types are being used now than ever before. And 3,400 women workers are needed to fill the gaps at Scarboro and the D.I.L. plant at Ajax to keep the shells coming.

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Two Young Women are here inspecting the equipment in a Ram tank before the gun shield is rivetted in place and the cannan installed. Designed by Maj. Gen. F. F. Worthington; O.C. 4th Canadian division; Rams are being supplied to two Canadian divisions.

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