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Session 1A
The Royal Canadian Air Force in Transition, 1945-1950
Chair: Randy Wakelam [Royal Military College of Canada]
Did Canada Finish the Second World War with a National Air Force?
Richard Goette [Canadian Forces College]
The Origin of North American Air Defence, 1945-1950
Peter Rayls [Queen’s University]
Residual Obligation: The Royal Canadian Air Force and the Occupation of Germany, 1945-1947
Bill March [Queen’s University]
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Session 1B
Art as History
Chair: Tim Cook [Canadian War Museum]
Graphic History and Visualizing Canada’s Military Past
Matthew Barrett [Canadian War Museum]
A View of War in Colour
Sarah Hart [Carleton University]
Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Unofficial Canadian Artworks of the First and Second World Wars
Sarafina Pagnotta [Carleton University]
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Tomorrow at 9 am ET:
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Keynote Address
Combat and Social Change in the Second World War: The Canadian Army in Commonwealth Perspective
Jonathan Fennell, King’s College London, author of Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War (2019).