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Tag Archives: World War II

This Week in History (1941): U.S. Army comes to town

The roar from the skies that afternoon must have been deafening. At 1 p.m. on Thursday March 27, 1941, eight U.S. Army bombers rumbled into Prince George and circled the town, landing one by one on the municipal airfield. The Douglas B-18 Bolo bombers and their combined crew of 37 American airmen were travelling from Tacoma,…

March 26, 2014 in History, Prince George BC.

This Week in History (1942): A noiseless New Year, a call for billets, and a debate to stop traffic

January 1, 1942: A “Silent Night” New Year’s Eve 1942 was a quiet one in Prince George, thanks to a war-time order for silence along Canada’s western coast. The Prince George Citizen reports that on December 30, 1942, the officer in charge of the Allied Pacific Command issued a request for “all vulnerable areas, which…

December 30, 2013 in History, Prince George BC.

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