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 […]
MTB 463 Sunk!
A month after D-Day, the Germans remained persistent in their attempts to foil Allied reinforcements from across the channel. Although their surface fleet […]
Battle 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 of the former. […]
Battle of Coronel
In an effort to halt German commerce-raiding activities at sea, the Royal Navy had sent Rear Admiral Cradock and a squadron of old […]