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Frontiers to Guard

1956 17 min
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A Fighter Control Operator must know her radar screen as well as she knows her own face. Elaine Harrington learns to do exactly that as she comes successfully through the rugged preliminary training to which the Royal Canadian Air Force subjects its recruits, both male and female. Elaine's dream is realized with a posting to Canada's NATO force in Germany.

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A Fighter Control Operator must know her radar screen as well as she knows her own face. Elaine Harrington learns to do exactly that as she comes successfully through the rugged preliminary training to which the Royal Canadian Air Force subjects its recruits, both male and female. Elaine's dream is realized with a posting to Canada's NATO force in Germany.

National Security and Defence Women All subjects
  • director
    Ian MacNeill
  • script
    Ian MacNeill
  • producer
    Nicholas Balla
  • photography
    Robert Humble
  • sound
    Clarke Daprato
  • editing
    Fergus McDonell
  • sound editing
    Dino Di Campo
  • narrator
    Bernard Cowan
  • music
    Robert Fleming

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