WW2 Americas War Against Switzerland

smellie said:
Back in the '60s, I worked at CP Airlines in the Flight Kitchen at Vancouver International Airport. My main job was Assistant to the Manager. A PART of my job also involved training Stewardesses in correct food-handling....!
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Reading a lot since covid / lockdown... that was one of the most interesting things I’ve read, thank you for the insight - wished you lived next door to hear more (at arms length with a beer)....
 
fraserdw said:
Because everybody else was joining; adventure; bed and food after a decade of depression; impress a girl. These are the most used reasons I collected over years of talking to WW2 vets. Most didn't much about what the Nazis were about.
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It was the same on the other side. One of my neighbours, now deceased, had been a Waffen SS grunt. I once asked him what would have happened if he hadn't joined up. I figured a one-way ticket to Buchenwald, but he said "nothing". He did, however, allow that the question had never come up because it had never occurred to anyone to refuse to go. Everybody joined because everybody else did.
 
smellie said:
Back in the '60s, I worked at CP Airlines in the Flight Kitchen at Vancouver International Airport. My main job was Assistant to the Manager. A PART of my job also involved training Stewardesses in correct food-handling..... which is part of why I still want to know who put a bomb aboard one of our nice DC-6Bs.
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Grizzly Adams said:
I still want to know who put a bomb aboard one of our nice DC-6Bs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_21

It was a popular way to solve marital or business problems in those days. :(

Grizz
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A coworker of my father was on that plane. They worked for Noranda Inc. in Vancouver.

He and his wife were flying up to Prince George to look for a house. He was to be the General Manager of the new Northwood Pulp Mill.

My mom told me about it years ago and said the suspicion was on someone that bought life insurance just before the flight. (I can still remember seeing the flight insurance kiosks at the airports in the 70's and 80's.)

A little digging turned up this (my money's on the gambler):

Within days, aircraft investigators and the RCMP concluded it was a criminal act. Using trace evidence gathered at the scene, they determined a bomb made of dynamite and what appeared to be gunpowder was detonated in the airliner's rear lavatory by one of the 52 people on board.

The RCMP identified four key suspects:

A gambler who purchased life insurance moments before boarding.

A young man described as a loner with an interest in guns and gunpowder.

A mining-explosives expert who had a criminal record.

An individual who had carried a gun onto the plane and was described by his psychiatrist as having a "deep madness towards the world."

Police investigated the backgrounds of all four, but were never able to determine who was responsible for detonating the bomb.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bomb-on-board-national-cp-flight-21-investigation-podcast-1.4898031
 
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