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Back To School Blues?, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Back To School Blues?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet promoting the End Conscription Campaign’s event to show the movie “Hair” (1979) to open a conversation about war and military service.


Township Residents!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Township Residents!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for South African Township residents as the South African Defence Force maintains a presence in the townships.


Namibians!, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Namibians!, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for Namibia due to the South Africa Defence Army’s illegal occupation.


War Is Not Compulsory: Let's Choose Peace, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

War Is Not Compulsory: Let's Choose Peace, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet calling for people to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign.


War Is Not Compulsory, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

War Is Not Compulsory, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure calling for people to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign.


The Problem With This General Election..., End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

The Problem With This General Election..., End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet calling South African voters to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign and contact their election candidates and the press to advocate against conscription.


Conscripts Need Alternatives: Support Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Conscripts Need Alternatives: Support Ivan Toms, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure in English and Afrikaans advocating for support of Ivan Toms, a founding member of the End Conscription Campaign who had formerly been drafted into national service with the South African Defence Force (SADF) as a non-combatant doctor. In 1983, Toms vowed to never serve the SADF again.


What's Your Choice?, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

What's Your Choice?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s position against compulsory military service and proffering alternative non-military services to the country.


We Demand The Right To Speak, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

We Demand The Right To Speak, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure documenting the End Conscription Campaign’s “Declaration for the Right to Speak” and information about the declaration.


Conscription Crisis: The Role Of The Church, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Conscription Crisis: The Role Of The Church, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure issued by the End Conscription Campaign’s Churches Group, explaining the scope of religious pacifism against compulsory military service in South Africa.


Ecc Churches Group, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Ecc Churches Group, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure providing information about the End Conscription Campaign’ Churches Group.


What Is The End Conscription Campaign?, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

What Is The End Conscription Campaign?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A brochure explaining the scope of the End Conscription Campaign, its history, and its efforts in South Africa.


Keep The Townships Clean, End Conscription Campaign 2017 Columbia College Chicago

Keep The Townships Clean, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A promotional sticker created by the End Conscription Campaign.


“Under Fathoms Of Salt Water:” Canada’S Ammunition Dumping Program, 1944-1947, Alex Souchen 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

“Under Fathoms Of Salt Water:” Canada’S Ammunition Dumping Program, 1944-1947, Alex Souchen

Canadian Military History

This article examines Canada’s ammunition dumping program in the mid-1940s and pays special attention to the practical and technical dilemmas that influenced policy making and implementation. A pressing logistical crisis followed the end of the Second World War as crowded armaments depots ran out of storage space for leftover ordnance. In July 1945 a major explosion at the Bedford Magazine in Halifax Harbour heightened public safety concerns and influenced future disposal policies. From a range of imperfect destruction methods, dumping emerged as one of the most efficient alternatives; whenever possible conventional and chemical munitions were submerged. Although the quantities sunk …


The Command And Control Of Canadian And American Maritime Air Power In The Northwest Atlantic, 1941-1943, Richard Goette 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

The Command And Control Of Canadian And American Maritime Air Power In The Northwest Atlantic, 1941-1943, Richard Goette

Canadian Military History

Operational, organizational, doctrinal, and cultural differences hampered effective command and control of Canadian and American maritime air power defending shipping against U-boats off the east coast during the Second World War. The American desire to implement US unity of command over both nations’ maritime air forces clashed with the Canadian preference for simple cooperation. Canadian airmen resisted several American attempts to impose unity of command until the operational situation in the Battle of the Atlantic revealed inefficiencies in coordination which necessitated all maritime air power in the Northwest Atlantic be centralized under Canadian operational control in the spring of 1943.


Patient Experience And The Treatment Of Venereal Disease In Toronto’S Military Base Hospital During The First World War, Kandace Bogaert 2017 Wilfrid Laurier University

Patient Experience And The Treatment Of Venereal Disease In Toronto’S Military Base Hospital During The First World War, Kandace Bogaert

Canadian Military History

During the First World War, the Canadian Espeditionary Force (cef) was infamous for having the highest rates of venereal infection among the Allies. Soldiers could be inspected at random, questioned about the source of their infection, and held in quarantine in hospital until cured. While medical officers published research on the prevalence and treatment of venereal disease, little has been written on the experiences of patients. This paper examines the experiences of venereal patients in Toronto’s Military Base Hospital in 1916. Soldiers’ correspondences reveal their perspectives, along with the ways in which the military’s management of venereal disease was laden …


We All Bleed Red: African American Soldiers And The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, Savannah A. Labbe 2017 Gettysburg College

We All Bleed Red: African American Soldiers And The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, Savannah A. Labbe

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

Years before the United States military was officially desegregated in 1948, African Americans fought alongside white men in the 1st Maine Heavy Artillery during the Civil War. Most African American men that fought for the Union in the Civil War did so in United States Colored Troops (U.S.C.T.) units, separated from white men. Because of this segregation, many black men, such as Andrew J. Williams of Industry, Maine, left home to find and fight with a U.S.C.T. regiment. Williams would not be accepted into a Maine regiment, or at least so he thought. His brother, Aaron E. Williams, decided to …


Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis 2017 Chapman University

Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years In Vietnam, Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Books and Book Chapters

Withdrawal is a groundbreaking reassessment that tells a far different story of the Vietnam War. Daddis convincingly argues that the entire US effort in South Vietnam was incapable of reversing the downward trends of a complicated Vietnamese conflict that by 1968 had turned into a political-military stalemate. Despite a new articulation of strategy, Abrams's approach could not materially alter a war no longer vital to US national security or global dominance. Once the Nixon White House made the political decision to withdraw from Southeast Asia, Abrams's military strategy was unable to change either the course or outcome of a decades' …


“A Disconnected Dialogue: American Military Strategy, 1964-1968,” Oklahoma Humanities, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2017., Gregory A. Daddis 2017 Chapman University

“A Disconnected Dialogue: American Military Strategy, 1964-1968,” Oklahoma Humanities, Vol. 10, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2017., Gregory A. Daddis

History Faculty Articles and Research

"The admission, supported by a careful reading of the historical record, begs larger questions: How do we remember American strategy in Vietnam? What language do we use to describe a war that proved so tragic, not only for the United States but, perhaps more importantly, for the millions of Vietnamese who lost their lives in a decades-long civil war? In coming to grips with a complex war, Americans, then and now, have relied on a series of tropes to streamline their conversations about a distasteful war."


The Legend Of The Wehrmacht’S “Clean Hands”: The Attempt To Remove Nazism From The German Military, Kenneth R. McCracken 2017 Gettysburg College

The Legend Of The Wehrmacht’S “Clean Hands”: The Attempt To Remove Nazism From The German Military, Kenneth R. Mccracken

Student Publications

The legend of the Wehrmacht’s “clean hands” was created with the Himmerdoer Memorandum of 1950 and sought to disassociate the German military with its Nazi past. The legend gained popularity in the minds of the German people and successfully led to Germany’s rearmament after World War Two. Beginning in 1990, the legend was destroyed as the actions of the Wehrmacht during World War Two created a different picture than that of the legend. The Wehrmacht’s hands were far from “clean” and instead were very dirty.


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