Matching Articles"War" (Total 9)

  • During the Second World War, Newfoundland played a pivotal role in Allied naval strategy for the North Atlantic.
  • Under its Leased Bases Agreement with Britain, the United States had permission to establish military bases in Newfoundland.
  • By the end of the Second World War, the obscure fishing villages of Argentia and Marquise had been transformed into a mammoth US military base.
  • During the Second World War, the relatively quiet port of Botwood became a highly-militarized Canadian coastal defence base.
  • As the likelihood of war increased in the 1930s, Canada realized that its defence hinged on the protection of Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • About the sinking of the passenger ferry, the SS Caribou by the German U-boat, U-69, on the night of October 13/14, 1942.
  • The Canadian airfield at Goose Bay, Labrador, impacted its surroundings dramatically during the Second World War.
  • About the American military base, Fort Pepperrell, located in St. John's during World War II.
  • About health conditions in Newfoundland during WWII such as problems with housing and veneral disease and the need for wartime hospitals.