Japanese Balloon Bombs
January-March 1945: Japan’s incendiary balloon bombs arrive in North America. A desperate attempt to set the Pacific Northwest forests on fire, some of […]
Operation Spring (1944)
The Canadian assault on Verrières Ridge, code-named Operation Spring, is one of the most controversial operations in Canadian military history. On July 25, […]
Women of the “Bombes”
With the release of the 2014 Hollywood Blockbuster The Imitation Game, the complex German coding system from the Second World War was introduced […]
Mouse Holes in Italy
After the liberation of Sicily and the downfall of Mussolini’s fascist government in the autumn of 1943 the Canadian troops stationed in Italy […]
Call of Duty WWII Video Game
During the week of November 3rd, 2017, Activision released another much-anticipated instalment in their Call of Duty franchise. This WWII iteration will be […]
The RCAF at Dieppe
Operation JUBILEE, the Allied raid on Dieppe, was primarily a Canadian operation. As such the sixty RCAF bombers and fighters patrolling the sky […]
Kiska Air Battle and the H.W.E.
When thinking about the Second World War, Canadians often understand it as a conflict that did not occur in North America, but that […]
Operation Husky (Italy 1943)
Operation Husky, the allied invasion of Sicily, began shortly after midnight on the morning of July 10, 1943, when the transport ships carrying […]
Canada in Burma: Fred Kagawa
In 1996, the Canadian National Defence Recovery Team traveled deep into the jungle of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) to recover the bodies […]