
German U-boat crews abandon plans to scuttle; surrender instead
It was a cloudy afternoon on May 10, 1945, when four Canadian navy ships intercepted U-889 some 250 kilometres southeast of Cape Race, Nfld. The
It was a cloudy afternoon on May 10, 1945, when four Canadian navy ships intercepted U-889 some 250 kilometres southeast of Cape Race, Nfld. The
“I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.” – Napoleon Bonaparte When times are tough and you’re far from home, it’s often the
The first casualty of war may be the truth, but the last and just as certain is the non-combatant. As many as 85 million people
Spanish authorities recently captured a 22-metre submarine after its three crewmen transported US$121-million worth of cocaine 7,700 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean from Colombia,
More than a million Canadians served in the Second World War. Just 41,100 of them remained as of March 31, 2018, according to Veterans Affairs
The original sat in a musty filing cabinet in the Halifax office of The Canadian Press for years: a sheaf of rice paper, its first
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