This well-known photo shows a convoy of merchant ships getting ready to sail to Britain from Bedford Basin, the splendid harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The photo is from A Nation Forged in Fire by J.L. Granatstein and Desmond Morton:
NZPPA at Artspost
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It was Janet Mazenier and her minimalist abstraction, 'Mudflats', that took
out the painting prize. The medium itself was interesting--oil paint, mixed
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4 days ago
I recently helped a friend interview one of the few remaining Swordfish pilots that patroled along side the convoys hunting U-Boats. The Swordfish was a 1930s biplane which was useful because it flew slowly enough to attack U-Boats with torpedoes and rudimentary rockets. He had some pretty amazing stories - trying to urinate into condoms mid-mission for instance; and a tale of a guy who smuggled his girlfriend on board for a mission - neither came back.
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