"These Six Women War Workers Are Husky and Proud of It," Windsor Star. June 23, 1943. Page 5.
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WHILE every one of Windsor's thousands of women war workers is determined to do her part in turning out the tools of victory, not all of them can boast the physical attributes of the above six employes of the Gotfredson, Limited, plant. These husky young ladies were snapped as they were taking a stroll during the luncheon period. They are workers on bodies for military vehicles. Left to right above are: Stella Turner, Stephani Metrofanik, Wanda Yunka, Jennie Kondruk, Rose Cabola and Gertrude Pare. They are proud of the contribution they are able to make to the war effort.
“Operating an electric Donkey Engine in Canada's Ram tank factory, this girl is doing a man-sized job of hauling heavy equipment. She steers her way down the long production line of the second largest tank arsenal in the world while men install the mechanical equipment. Nearly 20 feet in length, the Ram weighs as much as a railroad freight car. It can proceed over any terrain from a swamp to a desert; and is heavily armed with machine-guns as well as powerful cannon.”
- from the Toronto Star. August 1, 1942. Toronto Public Library, Toronto Star Photograph Archive, TSPA_0019302F.
The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall will open an armored vehicle plant in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, the company's CEO Armin Pap
The German arms manufacturing giant Rheinmetall is building a factory in Ukraine. In addition to being a practical way to support Ukraine's fight against aggression by Putin's Russia, it shows that foreign companies have economic confidence in Ukraine.
The German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall will open an armored vehicle plant in Ukraine within the next 12 weeks, the company's CEO Armin Papperger told CNN in an interview published on July 10.
The concern's director also announced plans to train Ukrainian staff to maintain tanks and other armored vehicles produced in that factory.
"(Ukrainians) have to help themselves — if they always have to wait (for) Europeans or Americans (to) help them over the next 10 or 20 years… that is not possible," Papperger said.
Rheinmetall's CEO revealed that the planned factory will be located in western Ukraine, protected from Russian strikes.
Ukrainians have shown themselves to be highly motivated, extremely resourceful, and creative. After the war the country could become an economic powerhouse like South Korea.
NATO membership for Ukraine is tricky because of Article 5 in the treaty. It stipulates that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all and that all member countries would be obliged to respond to such an an attack. So NATO membership for Ukraine before the end of Putin's unprovoked war would result in a NATO-Russia conflict.
So NATO has found a way around this by creating the NATO-Ukraine Council. As the name implies, the council includes the NATO countries plus Ukraine; Article 5 does not come into play with this council. I'm still not familiar with all the details but it seems a little like an engagement prior to a marriage – with no wedding date being set.
NATO Latest: Zelenskiy Calls NATO Summit a ‘Great Success’
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the NATO summit was successful in providing Ukraine with security commitments after softening his earlier criticism of the alliance’s steps toward offering his country a path toward membership.
The G-7 said it would provide commitments to Kyiv on the sidelines of the second day of the NATO leaders’ summit in Vilnius, where the defense alliance agreed on package of measures aimed at deepening ties with Kyiv and underlining the alliance’s long-term support. The allies pledged multi-year assistance to Ukraine; created a new NATO-Ukraine Council, which will meet later Wednesday; and sped up the process that will allow Ukraine to join NATO.
US President Joe Biden met with Zelenskiy, who had criticized the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Tuesday for not having set a clear timeline for Ukrainian accession.
The Stalingrad map is very familiar to our pilots. Now tankers too will be able to do battle on the winter version of this map in an upcoming update.
The map is based on real photographs of the Stalingrad tractor plant district, taken during the bloody battles for the city.
Tank production continued until the conflict moved into the grounds of the plant itself. Before then, practically all the buildings had already been destroyed and tank components were not being delivered, but the workers created armoured vehicles by producing the missing parts on their own.
