Inside Fighting Canada

Inside Fighting Canada
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Directed by	Jane Marsh
Produced by	James Beveridge
Written by	Jane Marsh
Narrated by	Lorne Greene
Edited by	Jane Marsh
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures of Canada
Release date	1942 (1942)
Running time	11 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Inside Fighting Canada is a 11-minute 1942 Canadian documentary film, made by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the wartime Canada Carries On series. The film, directed by Jane Marsh and produced by James Beveridge, was an account of the Canadian military during the Second World War. The film's French version title is Canada en guerre.

Canada in the 1930s was a peaceful nation with limitless potential and great resources of timberlands, prairie wheat fields and bountiful fisheries. After the outbreak of the Second World War, Canada was transformed into a nation at war. Thousands of recruits entered the military to begin their training. The first concern was to buttress the borders of a country with 24,000 miles of coastline to defend. On the home front, industrial production soared with factories converting to munitions and other weapons of war.

By 1942, Canada is the "aerodrome of democracy" with its involvement in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Canada trained thousands of airmen from the Royal Air Force (RAF), Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm (FAA), Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), the United States Army Air Corps and Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) (as well as airmen from many other countries) from bases stretching across the country.

In a spirit of democratic cooperation with other Allied/United Nations, Canadians responded to the needs of war, both in Canada and globally. In cooperation with the United States, one of the great strategic projects was the Alaska Highway where Canada's created the Northwest Staging Route to fly aircraft from North America to Asia.