I Have Slipped The Surly Bonds Of Earth

 This large utility vehicle is on display here.

Children were affected by the war, and these games and other items were geared towards them.

As mentioned yesterday, women stepped up in society during the Second World War, filling positions in armaments industries and other essential work, and joining the military.

It was a time where buying war bonds was patriotic.

So was rationing.

Veterans of the First World War were called upon to train new recruits, or guard prisoners of war brought across the ocean.

Canadian soldiers waiting in Britain spent their time in garrison duty, or endless training. Their commanders sought to give them more.

That something more ended in disaster. Canadians stormed ashore at a place called Dieppe in the summer of 1942, but the German defenses were ready for them. Many were killed, sustained wounds, or taken prisoner before the attack was withdrawn back across the English Channel.

And yet there were examples of heroism and courage under fire. And the hard lessons learned at Dieppe would be critical two years later during D-Day.

Another dramatic painting. Air Raid On San Giusto, Pisa was painted by Paul Goranson

Here we see the typical uniform of bomber flight crew members.

John Gillespie Magee was an American who went out ahead of his country and joined the war, flying for the RCAF. He was killed in the line of duty, mere days after America actually entered the war. He was also known as a poet, writing High Flight, a poem that speaks volumes of the life of a wartime pilot.

I leave off today with a view of an overhead Spitfire, one of the planes that won the war in the air.