Mounted soldiers head into battle. PHOTO: LEGION MAGAZINE ARCHIVES
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and her husband, Professor Pieter van Vollenhoven, officially opened a new interpretation centre at the Holten Canadian War Cemetery near
Dec. 1, 1996: A recovery team locates the remains of crew members killed when Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota KN-563 crashed during a monsoon on June 21, 1945. The plane had been flying supplies to British troops in Burma (now Myanmar).
Dec. 2, 1968: The Canadian submarine Rainbow (2nd) is commissioned. Purchased from the United States, she was originally known as the USS Argonaut, launched in 1944.
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