Lowe High School - Towers Yearbook (Windsor, Ontario Canada)

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T H E T O W E K s l’atfc Sixty-! )nc 3n jWemoriatn William Donald Carson -By JOHN WOLFE, T4B-B F. O. WILLIAM DONALD CARSON t Mr. Don Carson, a former member of the staff of the W. D. Lowe Vocational School, was born on December 16, in 1916, at Hamilton, Ontario. He was killed in active service during ' a night raid against Essen. Germany. His body was recovered from the North Sea fol¬ lowing the raid. At the time of his death. Mr. Carson held the rank of Flying Officer and fought with the Thunder Bird Squadron. Mr. Carson was buried on July 18, 1944. at Osterbegraabplatz, field 68, Amsterdam, Holland. We. of the Year Book staff, and students of the W. I). Lowe Vocational School, salute F. O. Carson.

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Page Sixty T H F. T () W E R S THE Memorial “A memorial for our soldiers Built of a people’s love, And blazoned and decked and panoplied With the hearts ye build it of.” “ILcst Jforget” ADAMAC, G. DURHAM, J. W. KENNEDY, J. PENNYCOOK, C. ADAMS, L. EDNIE, J. KENNEDY, P. PETRCZZI, M. ALLEN, R. ELLIOTT, T. KEOWN, O. PIERCE, R. ALEXANDER, E. FAIRBA1RN, D. LAESSER, H. P1KULA, F. AXFORD, H. FALSETTO, H. LAIDLAW, G. PODGER, R. BALDWIN, J. FIDDLER, G. LANOUE, A. POST, C. BALOG, J. FERNANDEZ, E. LATENDRESSE, F. PRESTWICH, C. BARKER, H. FONT, C. LAUDER, J. PYATT, R. S. BARRETT, G. FRANK, F. LAUZON, L. QUEEN, H. BATEMAN, C. K. FRY, C. LECHIEN, L. RAINONE, O. BEATON, C. GAINES, W. LEONARD, H. REID, D. BEER, T. GATACRE, F. LEOPOLD, G. RENAUD, T. BELCOURT, F. GATES, G. LEOPOLD, H. RIDDELL, J. BELCOURT, R. GIBBS, R. LONG, R. ROBINET, R. BELL, T. GOLDSPINK, J. LCNG, W. ROLLETT, T F. BENNETT, J. GRIFFITHS, A. LEWANDOWSKI, S. ROOD, W. BERNYK, M. GUBB, J. LYTWYN, F. ROYAN, D. BERNYK, V. HAGGIS, D. MacGREGOR, D. ROYAN, K. BEST, R. HALEY, G. MacNAB, D. RUSENSTROM, A. BIRCH, H. HARDY, B. MATTHEWS, H. SAWYER, K. BIZNAR, H. HAZAEL, E. McIntyre, e. SCHAFER, J. BRODERICK, L. HEATON, H. McMillan, a. SHEA, J. BRUEGGEMAN, L. HECKMAN, P. McLAUCHLIN, D. SHEPHERD, J. BURY, C. HEINZ, G. McNARY, J. C. SHEPLEY, S. BROOKS, F. HEWITT, R. MEASCR, J. SILVERSTEIN, J, BUSHINSKY, A. HILLS, R. MEASOR, R. SIMARD, A. BUCHESKI, B. HINDLE, W. MIDDLETON, D. SIMMONS, J. CHARRON, R. HINSCLIFFE, A. MIRO, J. SMITH, D. CHARTRAND, J. HOFFMAN, M. MITCHELL, H. SMITH, S. CAULLAY, J. HOLMES, J. MOLNAR, S. SMITH, Z. CLARKE, K. HOLMES, T. MOORECROFT, R. STADDEN, M. CLOUTIER, M. HOOD, T. MURDOCH, B. STASZUK, H. CORNETT, D. HORNER, H. NAGELEISEN, D. STEED, B. COCKERHAM, L. HORWOOD, D. NAPIER, M. STILES, F. COUSINEAU, R. HOWELL, D. O’CONNOR, R. TAYLOR, F. COBBETT, B. HUMPHRIES, L. O’CONNOR, W. THOMPSON, T. COX, W. JAMES, D. OMILIANOWSKI, P. TOUGH, J. CULPAN, R. JANISSE, L. ONDRACKA, L. TRUDELL, C. CUNNINGHAM, W. JAROSINSK1, J. O’NEIL, W. VALANCE, D. DEANE, A. JEAN, G. OUELLETTE, A. VANDERDASSEN, W DAVIS, J. JOHNSON, B. OUELLETTE, L. WALKER, W. DESALLIERS, L. JOHNSTON, C. PARE, G. WATTERSON, D. DILLON, J. JONES, R. PARENT, N WHITE, D. DOWELL, C. JORDAN, D. PARENT, R. J. WILLIS, A. DRAGMIR, S. JOYES, C. PARENT, R. WILKES, J. DREW, W. JOYES, R. PARKER, J. WINEGARDEN, F. DUFAULT, E. KEELEY, L. PATRICK, L. WISHAK, M. KEANE, J. PATTLE, W. ZYWINA, J. Let Us Hope Their Sacrifices Have Not Been In Vain May They Rest In Peace

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Page Sixty-Two T H E T O VV E K S 3n Jfletnoriam... Wdrld War 11 -By VV. A. MALKIN, e .. K.C.A.C. HEN the Windsor Walkerville Vocational School opened for the fall term in 1939, many of the senior students had already deserted its halls and were wearing the battle dress of the Essex Scottish or the blues of the R.C.N. and R.C.A.F. In the previous week, the German mechanized army had invaded Poland. Britain and France had fulfilled their obligation to that unfortunate country and were at war with Germany, which was being supported by her Balkan satellites and Russia. The members of the British Com¬ monwealth, except Eire, had thrown in their lot on the side of democracy. In Canada, recruiting was being conducted on a rather limited basis for the Navy, Army and Air Force. Canada’s industry was starting to change over to war production, and the Empire Air Training Scheme was being developed. In Europe, Poland was overrun in a few days before any material aid could be given to her. The French and British Armies moved into the Maginot Line. During the win¬ ter of 1939-40, it was quiet on the Western front and “Phoney War” was ' introduced into our reading and thinking. In the spring of 1940, the flood broke. The German Blitzkrieg broke through the British and French defences and in a few weeks overran Belgium, Holland, and Northern France causing a weak French Government to capitulate. The remnants of the British Army, without their heavy equipment and vehicles, withdrew to England. Ever anxious to be on the winning side, Mussolini had joined the Axis. Britain was left to face Europe with only a few miles of sea , the Royal Navy, a desperately small Royal Air Force, a small and very poorly equipped Army, but with a population united in a determination to defend every inch of the tight little island. The Luftwaffe introduced the Blitz. Day after day and night after night air armadas swept over the British Isles, bombing and gunning; but as steadily as they came, as steadily the fighters of the R.A.F. went up to meet them and knocked them out of the sky. The grim Britons, under Churchill, fought fires, dug out the ruins, buried their dead and laboured to build more planes and to re-equip the Army. A few British divi¬ sions and the First Canadian Division spread out along the South Coast while the Home Guards were hastily mobilized. Preparations for an Invasion of Britain went on along the French, Belgium, and Dutch Coast. The Battle of Britain was a grim, relentless one. By the summer of 1941, Hitler apparently despairing of invading Britain turned eastward, and attacked Russia. The Russians fought desperately as the enemy drove them back and gradually brought the German advance to rest. Britain breathed a little easier but kept on working. In December, 1941, the United States, which had been aiding Britain by supplying food and tools of war, was treacherously attacked by Japan. The two great Democ¬ racies now faced the Axis in a Globular War. The war in the Pacific went very badly for the Allies. The American fleet was crippled at Pearl Harbour and within a week, Britain lost her greatest warships. Base after base, island after island, including Britain’s Gibraltar of the East, Singapore, fell to the Japs. In Asia, in Europe, and in Africa, the tide was against the Allies. However, now American, British and Canadian factories were turning out ships, planes, ammunition, guns, tanks and other war supplies in unprecedented number. These were being convoyed by the Royal and Canadian Navies to Europe and by the United States Navy to the far East. Huge armies, air forces and navies were being recruited, equipped and trained. By 1943, the tide was turning. The Axis was thrown out of Africa. Britain was dotted with air fields from which hundreds of bombers and occasionally a thousand of them, swept over Germany and the occupied countries and bombed the industrial areas, the railways, the bridges, the highways and the ports. They were escorted by fighters in all but the longest sweeps and the air over Europe was no longer dominated by the Luftwaffe. The British and Americans overran Sicily and Invaded Italy. The Italians became co-beligerents, but the Italian campaign was tough, bloody and long. In 1944, came D-Day (Continued on Page 69)