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Show ; BETWEEN THE ROUNDS hkf T ' " vS iJ.fsj fa Zf -vV s - I ; 1 f i v i ? - Y I f I ! life' Vr J EREAK CLEAN . . . COME OUT FIRING1 Who says the age of chivalry is dead and modern machinery has taken the romance out of war? Tpr. W. J. Whan, Belle Ewart, Ont., and Sgt. R. Gladnick, New York City, show that Canadian tankers at least, still abide by the code duello and pistols at dawn are not found only between the pages of books. It is all clean fun and the lethal weapons are a couple of souvenirs picked up in a wrecked German position. The boys are relaxing between bouts of slugging It out with Jerry with much more dangerous weapons than these. WHAT A LETTER! Major M. E. Meers, Calgary, top right, is not studying a map of a battlefield it is a 6,472 word letter from his wife. The Major believes he has some kind of a record on his hands. "I was pleased to get it," he said, "but, man, oh, man, now I have to answer It!" THE WINE RAN RED: Strong drink is no respector of persons not even this so called "Super-man." This Jerry prisoner, lower right, drank too much "Calvados" "Calva-dos" (distilled apple cider to you), and the war became be-came just a rosy dream. LCpl. Charlie Pearce, Toronto, Canadian Provost Corps, and Sapper Bill Cooper, also of Toronto, wonder just how long he 11 III r!nor mHROTJGHOUT the Summer Ca-JL Ca-JL nadians, fighting with the British Brit-ish in the Caen area of Normandy, lave been slogging their way through some of the heaviest and fsi-cest resistance of the war. Bat-t'3-scarred and hardened, they are r. r.v old-timers in combatting enemy j .. mortar fire, mud. mines, in ; - :-se-to-henge advancing and the ci. "; risors of ground fighting. ' -t real action for the Cana dians in Normandy came with the drive on Carpiquet. a prelude to the push into Caen. There they faced the greatest mass of German troops so far concentrated on a narrow front troops which included the -cream of Nazi strength, a fanatic Hitler Youth tonnatiou. The viirp was to te taken by the Pnei'c'-aut! I.Iai-.ume units; the hanrari tV.e cr.ulh end of the airr.cld i--y . cLcru Canadians; and the administrative buildings by the Ontario infantrymen. Fierce tank battles prepared the way for the infantry. Wading through breast-high wheatfields in the face of 190,000 shells poured into them by Nazi guns, but with magnificent support from allied warships pounding pound-ing enemy positions from the sea, and air support from allied planes, the important village and finally the airfield were taken. |