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Sworn to Secrecy: Canadians on Radar, 1940-1945
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RCAF Personnel on their way home from Italy in 1945
19 of 31 		RCAF Notebook - Look closely! It's been stamped at the bottom as a confidential RDF Notebook
20 of 31 		Maintaining the equipment on the radar towers meant climbing when necessary, even in rain and snow!
21 of 31 		The Filter Room in St. Johns, Newfoundland kept track of activity on Canada's east coast
22 of 31 		Isolated stations: the barren landscape from the window of a plane heading to Goose Bay, Labrador
23 of 31 		Newpaper clipping about radar veteran John N. Given and his brothers
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F/O Given's notebook showing the crews and shifts for the Cape Scott, B.C. radar station
25 of 31 		The most northerly B.C. radar station was located at Langara Island, in the Queen Charlotte Islands
26 of 31 		Radar stations were located in strategic locations and were often difficult to access.
27 of 31 		First article in The Globe & Mail showing photographs of radar equipment
28 of 31 		Radar mechanics in front of guard house at RCAF Leeming
29 of 31 		Several WWII radar men continued to serve in the RCAF after the war, including as instructors.
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W/C K.R. Patrick and radar inventor Sir Robert Watson-Watt at a BBQ in Canada after the war
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