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Military History

The New Brunswick bridge bombing

“We are not quite the end of the earth, but it is visible occasionally,” says the website for Vanceboro, Maine. Its residents might have thought

The lost nuke of British Columbia

In September 1949, U.S. President Harry Truman announced the Soviet Union had detonated an atomic device. Early in the following year, U.S. air crews were

U-boats targeted East Coast shipping in the first half of 1942

Operation Drumbeat

U-boats targeted East Coast shipping in the first half of 1942 In the early hours of Jan. 12, 1942, wireless stations around the North Atlantic picked

Ottawa’s exiled princess

The Nazis invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, intent on capturing the royal family and stamping out resistance. Queen Wilhelmina, her daughter Juliana, son-in-law

Trench Raid

The attack on German dugouts at Calonne in 1917 was one of Canada’s most successful raids of the war The war diary of the 21st

“I felt it was my duty”

At 110 years old, Reuben Sinclair is believed to be Canada’s oldest living veteran of the Second World War. The son of Jewish Ukrainian immigrants,

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