Ken, where is your mother from? I would love to know more about her -- there are so few still living. You can email me at elinor1@telus.net if you...
THROUGH THE LENS -- Not everyone went to war, but for this farm girl from Alberta, joining the RCAF and becoming a photographer was the biggest...
BOMB GIRLS -- Millions of women all over the world including Germany and Japan made the weapons used in World War Two. Click the Wartime...
DISASTER AT DIEPPE -- Capt. Laurence Guy Alexander, medical officer for The 14th Canadian Army Tank Regiment (The Calgary Regiment), describes in...
TWO LETTERS FROM FRANCE -- What a difference a month makes! When you read these two letters written by my great-uncle Robert Burns Florence in...
My godfather Colin Greener stood five foot three in his boots, but he had the heart of a lion. In World War One he fought in the trenches, was...
THE GUYS WHO WOULDN'T FIGHT . . . Almost 11,000 Canadian men refused, mainly for religious reasons, to perform military duties during World War...
KIDS ON THE HOME FRONT -- There wasn't any way to protect children from the horrors of a world at war, so they became willing participants...
At the age of 93, Stocky Edwards is now a living legend for his role as an ace fighter pilot. He still lives at home in Comox, British Columbia,...
This band of EIGHT brothers from Saskatchewan served in the Canadian Army during World War Two, following the path laid down by their father John...
Richard C. Fuller was just seventeen when he began training as a signaller. Before war was declared, he joined the Canadian Army and eventually...
Seventy-two years after my uncle RCAF pilot trainee Alan Light died in a training accident, I uncovered a mysterious painting that shows the last...
Here's the photo that Gaines Blackwell set to me, a downed Spitfire on the beach on D-Day. [ATTACH]
Gosh, I wish I knew. I should have asked him for more details when I had the chance -- as many others have said about their veteran friends.
Arthur Bradford’s Spitfire was shot down over Normandy on D-Day, and he parachuted into the sea where he was promptly “rescued” by a landing...
Operation Fortitude was an elaborate, mind-boggling hoax – using rubber tanks, canvas ships, plywood aircraft, and even dummy soldiers to fool the...
Not only women, but children and even men took up their knitting needles in World War Two. Knitting was an act of patriotism, helping to defeat...
One Dutch woman recalls her family's experiences in Rotterdam, before and during Operation Manna, when Allied bombers dropped food to the starving...
The resistance efforts of the Dutch were remarkable. Thank you for sharing this information. I'm lost in admiration for anyone who would risk...
