AI EnhancedHMCS St. Croix
July 24, 1942: HMCS St. Croix sinks the German U-boat U-90, the second U-Boat kill for the RCN during the…
AI EnhancedNational Peacekeepers’ Day
The summer of 1974 was a difficult time for the Canadian Armed Forces. Over the course of the summer fifteen…
AI EnhancedDevil’s Brigade (FSSF)
August 15, 1943: The First Special Service Force (FSSF), a unique US-Canadian unit including Sgt. Tommy Prince, lands on Kiska,…
AI EnhancedTalbot Papineau
Passchendaele, Bellevue Spur, October 30th, 1917: The 800 soldiers of the PPCLI went over the top, initiating the 2nd phase…
AI EnhancedBilly Bishop, V.C.
June 2, 1917: Billy Bishop earns a Victoria Cross after destroying four German aircraft as they scrambled to engage the…
AI EnhancedLast Hundred Days
September 1st, 1918 marks the beginning of the Last Hundred Days of the First World War. Up until this point…
AI EnhancedHarry Brown, V.C.
The Canadian Corps at Hill 70, led for the first time by Sir Arthur Currie, captured and held all objectives…
AI EnhancedMILATARY HISTORY LIBRARY
Nighttime, October 21/22, 1944: Private Ernest Alvia "Smokey" Smith takes actions in Italy that will later see him receive a…
AI EnhancedMILATARY HISTORY LIBRARY
April 9-12, 1917: The Battle of Vimy Ridge. In stark contrast to the ad hoc charge at Kitcheners' Wood two…
AI EnhancedDOMESTIC
“…War is simply the curse of butchery, and men who have gone through it, who have seen war stripped of…
AI EnhancedBlackburn Shark Biplanes
March 4, 1936: No. 6 Squadron was established as a Torpedo Bomber unit at Trenton, ON. Operating Blackburn Shark biplanes,…
AI EnhancedCharles Fox
Operating out of the Beny-sur-Mer airstrip near Juno Beach, Fox was in a Spitfire on a typical armed reconnaissance mission.…