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Sworn to Secrecy: Canadians on Radar, 1940-1945

 
RAF ration coupon for Confectionery and Sweets
73 of 102 		Twenty-nine radar stations were built in the Atlantic provinces, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador
74 of 102 		RCAF Station at Preston, Nova Scotia
75 of 102 		Maintaining the equipment on the radar towers meant climbing when necessary, even in rain and snow!
76 of 102 		Inside the barracks at RCAF Preston, Nova Scotia -- neat and tidy!
77 of 102 		The Filter Room in St. Johns, Newfoundland kept track of activity on Canada's east coast
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The station magazine in Gander, NL was slightly more professional, and was printed in New Brunswick!
79 of 102 		A hanger fire in Gander, Nfld shook the RCAF base there in 1944
80 of 102 		Trying out the ski hill at Gander, NL, was a welcome adventure on occasional days off
81 of 102 		Isolated stations: the barren landscape from the window of a plane heading to Goose Bay, Labrador
82 of 102 		Eleven stations along the British Columbia coast were vigilant against the threat of attack
83 of 102 		Barracks at RCAF Station Marble Island, B.C.
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Food delivery could be delayed by poor weather at isolated stations, but there were plenty of fish!
85 of 102 		The Alcatrash, RCAF Station Marble Island's station magazine
86 of 102 		"Out of nowhere - going nowhere" - The Isolationist station magazine
87 of 102 		Newpaper clipping about radar veteran John N. Given and his brothers
88 of 102 		F/O Given's notebook showing the crews and shifts for the Cape Scott, B.C. radar station
89 of 102 		F/O Given's handddrawn map of proposed radar station site locations around Cape Scott, B.C.
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