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September 21, 2011

What’s going on with the reserves?

There’s an interesting story by Christie Blatchford out today on the long and fairly unsuccessful political effort to increase the size of the Canadian Forces

Letters From Bill – July 3, 1943.

Dear Mum, Dad and Jack: Well folks I thought I would write an ordinary letter to you just to break the monotony. I was wondering

The Bloody Battles Around Caen: Army, Part 96

On the afternoon of July 11, 1944, Canadian Corps Headquarters once again became operational on the soil of France. Lieutenant-General Guy Granville Simonds assumed responsibility for 7,280 metres of front in the Caen sector of Normandy. There was little time or inclination to mark this event or link it with the memory of the vaunted Canadian Corps of First World War fame because there was too much to be done.

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