"They fly, they sing, as they rise on the wing"
This song probably reached Canadian stores during the Battle of Britain in 1940, when the defence of the British Isles from German bombing attacks fell to fighter pilots from Britain and the Empire.
Wings in the Dawning, w. Alyce Coutts, m. Wal Bromby (Toronto: Gordon V. Thompson, 1940)
Wings in the Dawning.pdf
(35.71 MB)
sheet music, 6 pages, 23.1cm x 30.2cm
Ley and Lois Smith War, Memory and Popular Culture Research Collection - The University of Western Ontario - London, Ontario
Second World War