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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “World War II”

Celebrating VE Day

Creston Museum May 8, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

The armistice ending the Second World War was signed on 7 May 1945, but the celebrations everywhere – including Creston – continued on to the 8th, and May 8 was officially declared to be VE Day. Today, on the seventy-fifth …

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Local Service Stories

Creston Museum May 7, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

No investigation of the impact of World War II would be complete without giving some idea of what “the boys” – and girls – were doing to inspire the fundraising and the rationing and the collecting; what events the people …

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Waiting

Creston Museum May 6, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

These days, we’re all getting a taste of what it means to wait for the world to return to some semblance of normal. Just as people did during the Second World War, we’re constantly scouring news outlets for the latest …

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Managing in Wartime

Creston Museum May 5, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

Day five of our week-long look at the impact of the Second World War focuses on the war on the home front. World War II was, in every respect, a “total war:” Total in the sense that it was fought …

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Skills From Home

Creston Museum May 4, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

Serving in the military was, as the recruiting posters pointed out, a great way to gain new skills. But, from the recruiters’ point of view, it was even better if they could find young men and women who already had …

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Fundraising for the War

Creston Museum May 3, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

While the first recruits were signing their names to their attestation papers, others in the Creston Valley were mobilising to undertake the endless fundraising that the war effort required. And it was, quite literally, endless: every week, for six years, …

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Signing Up

Creston Museum May 2, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

Local enlistments for the armed services began the day Canada declared war. Since almost every other aspect of the Creston Valley’s war effort was done to support these enlistees, today, we’ll present our list of 809 young men and women …

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Seventy-Five Years Ago

Creston Museum May 1, 2020 Daily Dose of History, News & Articles, World War II Leave a Comment

Seventy-five years ago this week, the Creston Valley was waiting for official word that the war, which had been raging for six long years, was finally over. Even though the war was still dragging on in the Pacific, even though …

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