Ted Barris on WW II’s Operation Fish
“It’s a stunning story that has sort of been lost to time,” said Canadian author and journalist Ted Barris on WW II’s stranger-than-fiction Operation Fish.
Alex Bowers
January 7, 2026
“It’s a stunning story that has sort of been lost to time,” said Canadian author and journalist Ted Barris on WW II’s stranger-than-fiction Operation Fish.
Have you ever watched a war movie and thought, “when are they going to mention Canada?” It’s rare that the great white north gets anything more than a nod in in cinematic depictions of warfare, but these 7 movies break the mould and let Canada take centre stage.
Pilot Officer Albert Norman Gould was missing in action after his Lancaster was shot down on Nov. 4, 1944, during an Allied bombing raid over
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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.