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Deciding About The Army? Conscription Counselling Service, Conscription Counselling Service Oct 2017

Deciding About The Army? Conscription Counselling Service, Conscription Counselling Service

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet from the Conscription Counselling Service explaining the options for citizens in South Africa who are called to report for national service in the South Africa Defence Force.


Don't Give A War Toy This Christmas, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Don't Give A War Toy This Christmas, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign advocating against the purchase of children’s toys that resemble weapons for Christmas.


Count The Cost Of War, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Count The Cost Of War, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign addressing the monetary and emotional costs of the South African Defence Force’s efforts.


Rock Against The War, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Rock Against The War, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer promoting an event sponsored by the End Conscription Campaign.


What Has The Cost Of The War To Do With The Price Of Eggs?, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

What Has The Cost Of The War To Do With The Price Of Eggs?, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign advocating against military spending and a reallocation of those funds to agricultural efforts due to malnutrition and hunger for South African children.


End Conscription Campaign, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

End Conscription Campaign, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer explaining the beliefs and positions of the End Conscription Campaign.


Stop The Call Up, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Stop The Call Up, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A booklet explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s work and its positions regarding migrant labor, racial classification, detention and security legislation, farming, purchasing power, forced removals, pass arrests, migrant workers, and the South African Defence Force’s involvement with South African townships.


Working For A Just Peace, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

Working For A Just Peace, End Conscription Campaign

End Conscription Campaign

A flyer explaining the End Conscription Campaign’s lobbying efforts.


Conscripts!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup Oct 2017

Conscripts!, End Conscription Campaign Churches' Subgroup

End Conscription Campaign

A pamphlet explaining why the End Conscription Campaign is fasting and praying for conscripts due to the association of the South African Defence Force with apartheid.


Back To School Blues?, End Conscription Campaign Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

“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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

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 Oct 2017

“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 Oct 2017

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.


Rhapsody In Red, White And Blue: The Co-Evolution Of Popular And Art Music In The United States During World War Ii, Douglas A. Kowalewski Oct 2017

Rhapsody In Red, White And Blue: The Co-Evolution Of Popular And Art Music In The United States During World War Ii, Douglas A. Kowalewski

Student Publications

World War II was a watershed event in twentieth century American history. All aspects of life, including music, both found roles to play in the war effort and were forever altered by the conflict. Past work on the subject of American music in World War II tends to focus heavily on the nature and impact of popular music during this time period. While this paper will review and build upon this scholarship, art music during the war will also be considered. Using two distinctly different, yet complementary, autobiographies – those of army band musician Frank Mathias and composer Gunther Schuller …