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A banner day for RCAF fighters
A banner day for RCAF fighters
“The Huns were like bees. They seemed confused and acted as though they did not know what they were doing,” said Warrant Officer Murray Havers, one of a group of Royal Canadian Air Force pilots to shoot down 26 German planes between dawn and dusk over the Normandy front on June 28, 1944.
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Small blessings: Military marks Indigenous Peoples Day in Ottawa

Small blessings: Military marks National Indigenous Peoples Day in Ottawa
For years after he joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 2004, Chief Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Stevens, an Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation in northeastern Ontario, hid his Indigenous roots.
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The unfortunate fate of convoy HX-49
The unfortunate fate of convoy HX-49
There is safety in numbers, so the saying goes. That was the thinking that led to the merging of two Second World War convoys headed for Great Britain in June 1940..
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A daring aerial rescue at sea
A daring aerial rescue at sea
On June 16, 1943, Nazi aircraft downed a British Typhoon in the Strait of Dover, off Cap Gris-Nez in France.

Flight Lieutenant John A. Spence of Guelph, Ont., was sent to the rescue in his Walrus aircraft.
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Canadian expert: Ukraine war could end Russian power.
Canadian expert: Ukraine war could end Russian power, influence
A Canadian adviser in Ukraine says Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade the former Soviet republic could spell the end of Russia as the world knows it.
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Wallace Turnbull and the variable-pitch propeller
Wallace Turnbull and the variable-pitch propeller
In 1902, when most of the world thought heavier-than-air flight was a pipe dream, Wallace Rupert Turnbull began research into aeronautics in Rothesay, N.B.—and went on to make a major contribution to aviation.
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Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war
Hell and high water: When high-tech bows to age-old tactics in Ukraine war
The villagers of Demydiv are being credited with saving Kyiv from what could have been a decisive attack after they flooded their own neighbourhoods and surrounding fields in the weeks after Russian forces invaded Ukraine.also had the distinction of being the only ship to vote itself out of that war.
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Warfighting at Mont Sorrel
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 two weeks Canadian forces would lose and recapture the high ground. Nearly 4,000 would die there and more than 5,000 would be wounded.
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Government MPs vote down attempt to create Victoria Cross review board
Government MPs vote down attempt to create Victoria Cross review board
Government MPs have voted down the proposed creation of a board to review historical combat actions, including those of Private Jess Larochelle, with an eye to recommending Victoria Crosses where warranted.
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This story by The Canadian Press was widely published in Canadian papers and eagerly read across the country 78 years ago by war-weary citizens hungry...
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Wallace Turnbull and the variable-pitch propeller
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