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Well again the whole part of my book the Newfoundland Constabulary on the home front WW11 is a personal story to tell about the work of the Constabulary officers and the impacts it had upon their families. These men worked 7 days a week 12 and 14 hours a day right through the whole war. They had no time off and I know the story hasn't been told, that's the object of my book. But during the years of research for my book I really found out how important Newfoundland was to the allied war effort and I also found out Newfoundland was never given the credit it so rightly deserved and also I read an art saying how important Newfoundland and the Escort Force was to the Canadian Navy and to their tradition and it really made me appreciate how difficult of a job our servicemen had and especially our navy people, the Canadian Navy who left here, how important the Newfoundland Escort Force was and the corvettes and convoys coming out of Newfoundland, that especially after France had fallen the low countries were taken over by Germany, and Britain was starting to stagger, and they needed so much material and the material had to come via Canada and Newfoundland and someone had to escort them across, so I learned how important Newfoundland was to the allied war effort and I hope there is some researchers out there who come in and look at the navy point of view because I am handling the Police side of it but there is a tremendous story that hasn't even been scratched in my opinion of how important Newfoundland was to the second world war efforts. A lot of these men are dead because of their ages they would be in their late 80's but I think it has to be told.
Gary Browne