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"Canadian Army Women to Train As Anti-Aircraft Gun Operators," Toronto Star. April 30, 1943. Page 27. ---- BRITISH WOMEN TERRITORIALS OPERATE "A.A." GUNS ---- Ottawa, April 30 - (CP) - Members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps will be trained as "plotter telephonists" and will eventually take their place with men manning anti-aircraft artillery, defence headquarters has announced.

Women in Britiain's auxiliary territorial service - the British women's army - have been used on similar duty for some months. Some have helped operate London's guns during air raids.

Women selected must have grade 10 in education, have ability at map-reading and mathematics and possess a "keen interest" in artillery, the statement said.

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“Above in (1) to shown the area where Bolivian and Paraguayan troops are waging bitter combat in the dispute over the Gran Chaco territory. Latest reports are that each side has lost about 2,000 men in the Bolivian attack on Fort Nanawa, held by the Paraguayans. The marshland surrounding the fort is a sea of mud making military operations difficult. In (2) is shown General Hans Kundt, veteran German army officer, who is directing the Bolivian attack and calling into operation military tactics used during the Great War. A Paraguayan anti-aircraft gun is seen in (1) indicating the combatants have at their service the necessary attributes of modern warfare.”

- from the Kingston Whig-Standard. January 30, 1933. Page 3.

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“Since under the terms at the Versailles treaty, Germany is forbidden to use fighting planes, them anti-aircraft gunners are practising their marksmanship with the aid of cardboard plane, constructed on a small scale to give the Impression of height .The "planes" are attached to wire ropes suspended from a tall pylon, erected on the exercise grounds of a Berlin barracks, and their movements are controlled by a "pilot" standing on a platform placed midway between the top and base of the pylon. The gunner shown above is aiming at the "plane" as it leaves the pylon.”

- from the Kingston Whig-Standard. February 15, 1933. Page 9.

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“A WELL-PREPARED defence of war bases .and industrial areas along Australia's vulnerable east coast includes a novel and effective gun-mounting. Devised by the artificer of an anti-aircraft battery, four Lewis guns are fixed at an angle that will establish a concentration of fire at a predetermined point. One touch of the master trigger and simultaneous gunfire spells death to any Jap raider within range.”

- from the Windsor Star. October 9, 1942. Page 21.