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Title: The Slit Trench - Second World War
 
Type: Sound
Description: A wounded Canadian captain discusses the grim hours soldiers spend in shallow, muddy trenches.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: "Miserable, rotten, hopeless life" - Canadian Sailors - Second World W...
 
Type: Document
Description: Synopsis of television episode on the experiences of Canadian sailors as they face German U-boats on the high seas during the Second World War. This episode is part of the "Canada: A People's History" series. Includes links to educational resources, bibliography, games, puzzles, and video clips.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Enforcing Discipline Among Female Recruits - Canadian Women in the Sec...
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: During the Second World War, rumours circulated amongst the civilian population that servicewomen were not living up to the high moral standards of their civilian counterparts. In this excerpt from the TV program "Women at War," several women who were officers in WW II recall the efforts made to enforce discipline among female recruits.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Women of the Second World War: 'Ten men for every girl'
 
Type: Sound
Description: During the Second World War, Halifax suddenly doubled in size when the port became a key hub for Allied naval forces and merchant shipping. Women who lived in or were stationed in the city at that time recall the pulse of activity and the influx of soldiers and sailors.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: 1939-1945 - A Soldier's War
 
Type: Document Sound
Description: From 1939 to 1945 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lived and died in lands far from home. CBC Radio was one of the few links friends and family in Canada had to their loved ones abroad. Through reports from the front, dramatizations and direct greetings from soldiers, CBC revealed what life on the battlefront was like.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Women of the Second World War: Nurses face danger and death
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: In World War II, the Nursing Sisters of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps had the most difficult, dangerous and grisly jobs of all Canada's enlisted women. They were the ones who followed men into battle to tend their wounds, fight diseases, care for prisoners of war and help the thousands of injured civilians whose lives were destroyed along the way. In this clip from CBC Television's Women at War, three former nurses describe their harrowing experiences.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Women of the Second World War: Caring for sailors in Halifax
 
Type: Sound
Description: In this 1975 radio broadcast, women recall working in the YMCA canteen in Halifax during the Second World War, feeding the sailors and listening to their sometimes horrific stories.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: "Dames in the Navy?" - Canadian Women as Navy Wrens in the Second Worl...
 
Type: Sound
Description: This 1942 episode of the radio program "Comrades in Arms", entitled "The Wrens are Here," describes the duties of servicewomen in the Royal Canadian Navy, whose jobs on shore freed up men for service at sea during WW II.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: Tea Time on the Battlefront - A Wartime Ritual in the Second World War
 
Type: Sound
Description: The nightly ritual of making tea in the trenches is described in detail.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
Title: "I'm the Proudest Girl in the World!" - First Canadian Military Recrui...
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: In 1941, for the first time in Canadian history, women were recruited for Canada's Armed Forces. This television clip features scenes from the NFB recruitment film "The Proudest Girl in the World" and interviews with two women who answered the call to enlist in World War II.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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