Canadian Convoy Escorts

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    An American Blunder: Navy, Part 43

    February 12, 2011 by Marc Milner
    On the night of Jan. 11-12, 1942, the war at sea reached the Western Hemisphere when U-123 torpedoed and sank the British steamer SS Cyclops southeast of Cape Sable, N.S. Kapitainleutant Reinhard Hardegen’s U-boat was the first of a wave of five submarines ordered into...
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    Scrappy Little Corvettes

    January 5, 2010 by Mac Johnston
    Corvettes leave Halifax, April 1941. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA105334 “Adventure and serving your country, what a drawing card, eh?” said my wife as she examined the photo of the 17-year-old sailor and put it on the scanner. “Wow!” It’s a remarkable Second World War...