On March 22, 2022, Russian forces captured Kherson in southern Ukraine, giving rise to a spontaneous and loosely organized citizen spy ring that would play a crucial role in ending the port city’s brutal occupation in just eight months.
1 February 1944 A Canadian corps operates on the front line, in Italy, for the first time since the Great War. 2 February 1915 A German spy
The citizens of Port Arthur, Ont., (now part of Thunder Bay) even offered $1,000 in prize money if the ship named for their town destroyed a Nazi submarine.
In January 1943, the sailors of HMCS Port Arthur earned that prize.
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