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Description: Commemorating Canada's Great War Flyers. A trilogy of documentaries, activities and educational initiatives on how aviation changed the course of the First World War and Canada's heroic involvement
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Aviation, at the start of the First World War in 1914, evolved from being viewed as an unnecessary novelty to an integral strategic asset that gathered intelligence behind enemy lines. Drawn to Victory tells the little-known story of how thousands of Canadian pilots and Canadian topographic surveyors contributed to the past century’s greatest map renaissance. No war in history, prior to this one, relied so much on maps.
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Aviation, at the start of the First World War in 1914, evolved from being viewed as an unnecessary novelty to an integral strategic asset that gathered intelligence behind enemy lines. Drawn To Victory tells the little-known story of how thousands of Canadian pilots and Canadian topographic surveyors contributed to the past century's greatest map renaissance.
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