Betty Metcalfe: “I lost my brother to a Nazi executioner”
The last words Betty Metcalfe’s brother Jack ever spoke to her still haunt her almost 80 years later. It was 1940 and the Metcalfe family
Stephen J. Thorne
August 14, 2019
The last words Betty Metcalfe’s brother Jack ever spoke to her still haunt her almost 80 years later. It was 1940 and the Metcalfe family
The Battle of Hill 70 was a 10-day Canadian Corps victory in the First World War that came at a terrible cost to both sides.
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.