Nov 1949 – First Year @ RMC – Diary Extracts:3069 W. A. McColl
Week 9 at RMC for 3069 W.A. McColl Nov. 7 – 1949: Big news of the day was having my name posted for passing off. Didn’t get off but then only 2 out of 13 did. Some of us will get another chance soon. Got 4 letters today, guess I’d better write someone. Bob went…
Two Diaries – 1949 W. A. McColl & 1983 Theresa Winchester, UTPM
Week 8 at RMC for 3069 W.A. McColl, 1949 Oct. 31 – 1949: Bud has moved to a single room and we have Glenn Jones for our senior cadet. He is a nice fellow, quieter than Bud. Had another needle today, it was enough to make a horse sick and everyone is in bed early.…
Two Diaries – 1949 W. A. McColl& 1983 – Theresa Winchester, UTPM
Week 7 – First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl Oct. 24 – 1949: At breakfast parade it was so dark they couldn’t have an inspection and was it cold! I’ve never felt wind like we get here. No mail today. Nearly everybody was up to all hours writing…
Week 6 – First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl
MOOSE JAW AREA AB – BC – MB – NB – NL – NS – ON – PEI – QC – SK Joseph-Albert Guay at his trial. Joseph-Albert Guay Murders Wife by Bombing Her Plane On September 9th, 1949, Albert Guay successfully carried out the murder of his wife, Rita Guay, by placing a bomb disguised as her luggage while she took a plane…
Week 5 – First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl
A Television Icon Makes His Debut The Lone Ranger began as a western-themed, children’s radio program in 1933, and in 1949 its producer brought the popular show to television. It starred Clayton Moore as the lone surviving Texas Ranger and Jay Silverheels as his Native American partner, Tonto. The Lone Ranger fended off evil in…
Week 4 – First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl
Model 95 Polaroid Camera (1948-1953) A Few Interesting Things About the World in 1949: • The Fourth Geneva Convention whose articles extensively defined the basic rights of prisoners (civil and military) during war; established protections for the wounded; and established protections for the civilians in and around a war zone. • South Africa makes apartheid…
Week 3 – First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl
Mao Zedong proclaims People’s Republic of China http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mao-zedong-proclaims-peoples-republic-of-china?catId=3 Week 3 at RMC for 3069 W.A. McColl: Sept. 26 – 1949: We all got inoculated for just about every known disease there is. 4 needles at once! I don’t feel bad now but our arms are aching a bit. Went sailing with Fritz in a…
Week 2 – First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl
“We have evidence that in recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the USSR,” President Truman announces September 23. A specially modified U.S. B-29 flying off Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has picked up traces of microscopic particles that contained disintegrating nuclei, and scientists have determined that the invisible grains of matter caught in the plane’s sniffer…
First Year @ RMC – Extracts from 1949 Diary: 3069 W. A. McColl
1949 After many years of misery through the depression and World War 11 postwar prosperity is starting to get underway with companies now able to supply the cars, Televisions and the other goods demanded in a consumer society. A new type of TV programme appeared we now call Soap Operas ( the name came from…