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Recruits and Recruitment (4)

  • Aircrew
    Aircrew
    Thomas Farley 1954 45 min
    This film takes us to a number of Royal Canadian Air Force training centres to show how recruits from all parts of Canada become the key men at the controls of their country's aerial defence.
  • Airwomen
    Airwomen
    Ian MacNeill 1956 17 min
    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.
  • Career Soldier
    Career Soldier
    Clarke Daprato 1960 28 min
    A recruitment film for the Canadian Armed Forces.
  • Frontiers to Guard
    Frontiers to Guard
    Ian MacNeill 1956 17 min
    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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