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[Canadian Army Newsreel Musical intro.]
Narrator: The Amir Faisal and the Amir Khalid
are two of the sons of King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia.
On a recent trip to Great Britain,
they spent an afternoon with the Canadian Corps
where Lieutenant General Sansom showed them around.
The royal party made an inspection of some of the
modern weapons and vehicles in use by the Canadian Army.
Long flowing robes looked strangely out of place
on the modern tank,
but the princes know a good deal about the operation
and fighting qualities of armoured vehicles,
especially since before arriving in this country
they'd made a tour of the United States
and had visited training centres there.
At the end of the day,
a Canadian armoured division put on a demonstration.
Seldom has the Canadian Army had two more
colourful visitors than these princes.
When they return to their own country they will be
able to report that Canada and the Canadian Army had
made no small contribution to the final victory.
Apparently remote from all the turmoil of war,
a quiet stream tumbles musically on its way
in the Highlands of Scotland.
Nothing disturbs the solitude of its banks
save its own muted murmuring.
As it flows it turns an older watermill which,
unchanged for almost a century,
once ground wheat into flour for the local inhabitants.
But today it has another use.
Electric power is needed in the Highlands and the
Canadian Forestry Corps has found a way to get it.
By connecting a generator to the water wheel,
there is now power for the buzz saws and conveyor belts.
Electricity to supply power for speeding up
the handling of timber,
power for repair work, power for lighting,
power for radio sets.
And the little stream which turns the age-old mill
goes calmly on its way,
flowing onwards to where it meets the sea.
Another big troop ship loomed out of the fog recently
and tied up at a British port.
Once again safely convoyed by the British and Canadian Navy,
a large number of reinforcements from Canada had arrived.
CWACs were among the new arrivals,
come to swell the ever-growing
overseas contingent of the Corps.
Under the efficient management of Movement Control,
the new arrivals were marched off the ship.
After a rough passage it felt good to get both feet
planted on Mother Earth again.
Meanwhile, cranes slung the freight down on to the docks
where not a foot of space on any ship
bound for England is wasted.
At the railway station, the men had their first look
at English trains,
trains that seemed so tiny after the ones in Canada.
Then they were on their way to reinforcement units
to start their final training.
Canadian fighting strength in Italy has been increased
by the arrival of new infantry and armoured
formation from Britain.
The newcomers lined the rails of their ships as they drew
into the busy port of Naples.
Among them was Captain J.E.R. McDougall, OC,
Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit.
Pipers heralded the nursing sisters in battle dress
as they came ashore,
anxious to be off to the camps to get to work.
Greetings were exchanged with the United States
and British soldiers patrolling the dock.
And then to the skirl of the bagpipes
they marched through the streets of Naples.
Representatives of all parts of Canada,
keen and fit looking, eager to take their places
alongside their Canadian brothers.
Then, together with troops nested in Sicily and Italy,
they will form a Corps under a Canadian command.
United We Conquer is a phrase that has become
a symbol of combined operations.
Due to decisions made by Allied leaders
on the plan for the invasion of Europe,
the Black Watch of Canada held a combined ops exercise
to rehearse the part they might be called upon
to play in the assault.
An assault that will dwarf every Allied
military effort of this war.
The success of coastal assault depends to a large degree
on air supremacy.
Naval strength too is a vital factor.
But once the landing craft hit the beaches,
the real success of the operation depends on the Army.
Combined ops encourages the spirit of cooperation
in all fighting men,
united by the danger of their calling.
For ten days the course lasted and after being through
the hazards of live bullets and scaling cliffs
they could tackle anything in the line of assault.
Toggle ropes, developed by the commandos,
were used for the construction of bridges,
ladders and slides.
In place of regulation dress,
men wear assault vests with their canvas jackets
with pockets and pouches for equipment and ammunition.
All over England and Scotland,
hundreds of thousands of troops
are studying this technique of invasion.
And when the curtain rises on the master plan,
it will find the Canadians applying the lessons
learned in a long series of combined operations.
Canadians with the Allied troops united to conquer!