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0 While shooting in war zones, cameramen often zoom in on civilians. The faces flash by on our television screens, leaving viewers wondering what will happen to these hostages of fortune. Apparently the photographers wonder, too. In 2001 Nick Danziger took photos for the International Committee...
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0 Three machines from the Second World War have found new homes this month. A Grumman TBM Avenger Aircraft has been moved to the Shearwater Aviation Museum in Nova Scotia. The aircraft were built as torpedo bombers, but were put to more mundane postwar work spraying...
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0 I just read a touching piece about a good way to say thanks to a veteran. Paul Kavanagh, a Montreal periodontist, was visiting the Canadian War Museum in 2009 with his family and happened to be in line at the cafeteria behind a veteran who did...
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0 With Marc Milner’s series on the Battle of the St. Lawrence currently playing out on the pages of Legion Magazine, I was interested in these links about the successful planting of German weather stations on what is now Canadian soil during the Second World War....
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0 “…thousands of men out of work…” Witley Camp, April 17, 1919 Dear Folks, Well: here we are in Blighty and finished with France and Belgium, I hope. It’s mighty good to be in a land where you don’t have to try swallowing your tongue when...
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0 “Getting pretty impatient now.” Witley Camp, April 15, 1919 Miss Millie Dobbs, 25 Howland Ave., Toronto, Ont., Canada Dear Sister, Well here we are in “Blighty” and darned glad, too, to get in a civilized country again. Landed at Southampton the 4th and came right...
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