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.…
AI EnhancedD-Day: General Crerar
Shortly after supper on the evening of June 1, 1944, the final official meeting discussing D-Day preparations took place. The…
AI EnhancedFredrick Peters, V.C.
November 8, 1942: Captain Fredrick Thornton Peters led an amphibious assault on the city of Oran, located on the western…
AI EnhancedHMCS Athabaskan
April 29, 1944: HMCS Athabaskan (the first of three destroyers to have that name) was torpedoed by the German light…
AI EnhancedBattle of Kapyong
April 24th, 1951: The 700 Soldiers of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry are entrenched atop Hill 677 which controls the…
AI EnhancedMTB 463 Sunk!
A month after D-Day, the Germans remained persistent in their attempts to foil Allied reinforcements from across the channel. Although…
AI EnhancedBattle of the Atlantic
March, 1943: The technological cat-and-mouse race between the Royal Canadian Navy and the German Kriegsmarine’s U-boats finally shifted in favour…
AI EnhancedBattle of Coronel
In an effort to halt German commerce-raiding activities at sea, the Royal Navy had sent Rear Admiral Cradock and a…
AI EnhancedHenry Norwest
During the First World War over four thousand Aboriginal people served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. During the first part…