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Military History

On this date: June 2022

2 June 1917  Billy Bishop launches a solo attack on a German aerodrome and is later awarded the Victoria Cross. 4 June 1989 The Tiananmen

D-Day bicycle

Quick and quiet, this folding bike played a key Canadian role in Normandy The 14,000 Canadian troops that landed on Juno Beach on D-Day, June

Warfighting at Mont Sorrel

Mount Sorrel and two nearby hills were the last elevated positions held in the Ypres Salient at the start of June 1916. In the next

Czech assasins & Heydric

Czech assasins Two agents exact revenge on the Butcher of Prague JOZEF GABČÍK AND JAN KUBIŠ “I’ve been picked for a mission,” Jan Kubiš told an

Canada’s second major WWI battle

In May 1915, Canadian troops entered their second major battle of the First World War, on the Western Front near Festubert in the Artois region

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