Ummnnn that would seem to be a major oversimplification.
By road, Long Branch (Toronto) Ontario is 467 miles (to 474 miles) from Chicopee Falls Massachusetts. Chicopee Falls Mass. is also 258 miles from the port? of Oswego New York.
By air, (presumably the most direct route) non-stop to Springfield International it is 1hr and 35 minutes...presumably somewhat faster than it would have been in 1944...