“Smokey” Smith, V.C.
Nighttime, October 21/22, 1944: Private Ernest Alvia “Smokey” Smith takes actions in Italy that will later see him receive a Victoria Cross. A […]
Battle of Vimy Ridge
April 9-12, 1917: The Battle of Vimy Ridge. In stark contrast to the ad hoc charge at Kitcheners’ Wood two years before, Vimy […]
General Sir Arthur Currie
“…War is simply the curse of butchery, and men who have gone through it, who have seen war stripped of all its trappings, […]
Blackburn Shark Biplanes
March 4, 1936: No. 6 Squadron was established as a Torpedo Bomber unit at Trenton, ON. Operating Blackburn Shark biplanes, they were soon […]
Charles Fox
Operating out of the Beny-sur-Mer airstrip near Juno Beach, Fox was in a Spitfire on a typical armed reconnaissance mission. In the late […]
D-Day: General Crerar
Shortly after supper on the evening of June 1, 1944, the final official meeting discussing D-Day preparations took place. The meeting, hosted by […]
Fredrick Peters, V.C.
November 8, 1942: Captain Fredrick Thornton Peters led an amphibious assault on the city of Oran, located on the western edge of the […]
HMCS Athabaskan
April 29, 1944: HMCS Athabaskan (the first of three destroyers to have that name) was torpedoed by the German light destroyer T-24 and […]
Battle of Kapyong
April 24th, 1951: The 700 Soldiers of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry are entrenched atop Hill 677 which controls the entrance to the […]