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. […]
North African Campaign
On February 2, 1943, a group of Canadian officers arrived in North Africa. The North African Campaign had been raging back and forth […]
Robert Gray, V.C.
August 9, 1945: In the waning days of the Second World War, Lt. Robert Hampton Gray of the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserves […]
The Falaise Pocket
Two months after the landings in Normandy, the Allied armies remained within a fairly narrow strip of land west of Caen, France. The […]
Christmas in Ortona
For the Canadian troops fighting their way through the Italian Front in December 1943, Christmas would prove to be a challenging time. Leading […]
HMCS Sackville
September 28-29, 2003 – The Flower class corvette HMCS Sackville earns the dubious distinction of becoming the last Second World War vessel to […]
Wehrmacht-planned Great Escape
May 1943: the tide turned in the Atlantic and more U-boats were sunk than cargo ships. But just before the reversal of fortunes, […]
HMCS Chebogue
Oct. 4, 1944: The River-class frigate HMCS Chebogue (K317) is struck by a German homing torpedo of the G7es type, launched from the […]
D-Day: Bill Wilson
Every June we experience the anniversary of one of the most historic days in modern memory, D-day, and it’s important for us to […]