Story Ninety-Two: D Day Documentary

This is a 59 minute documentary using original photos and film produced in 1998 by Avion Park
The video has some excellent clips of gliders.
Visit
http://www.documentarytube.com/historical-documentaries/d-day-the-day-the-world-changed/
Item Two: Propaganda Cartoon(US)
This is  another version of the Three  Little Pigs  story with the Big Bad Wolf  as  Adolf Hitler,  made in 1942. ,  A  [...]

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Story Ninety-One: Canadians Awarded US Military Honours,

Source: http://archives.cbc.ca/war_conflict/vietnam_war/topics/1413/
It is a common misconception  that  all Canadians  were anti-war protesters  during the Vietnam war, some were, but  the reality was not much different,  in in fact many  Canadians  volunteered with the Americans  in every one of their conflicts  spanning from the Civil War to present day Iraq.  In the case of the  civil [...]

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Story Ninety-One: 2009 Calendar

Courtesy of William Sam Magee,  a  2009 calendar with pictures from the First Special Service Force,  an elite group of WW 2 Americans and Canadians.
Sam provides an entertaining story of his first dispatch with the force to Kiska
Click on link or icon to view the slideshow
Or you can download it at
http://www.archive.org/details/2009FssfCalendar
http://gcmcknight.webng.com/2009_calendar/

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Story Ninety: Canadian Miners at Gibraltar

In 1940 an urgent request was issued by the British Government for hardrock miners to work on the rock of Gibraltar. Canada responded by sending Noranda Mine workers who became part of the Royal Canadian Engineers and began one of the most impressive tunelling work during WW2. The task of the workers was to carve [...]

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Story Ninety: Battle of Bowmanville

U-Boat Commanding Officers imprisoned at the Bowmanville POW Camp:
Left to Right: Horst Elfe (U-93), Wolfgang Heyda (U-434), Friedrich-Wilhelm Wentzel (*),
Otto Kretschmer (U-99), Hans Engel (*), Gerd Schreiber (U-95), Hans Ey (U-433),
Curt von Goßler (U-49), Joachim Matz (U-70), Günther Lorentz (U-63)
German Officers, ‘Prisoners of War’ at Camp 30, Bowmanville

Story One:  Clash [...]

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Story Eighty-Nine Children Evacuation and Canada

Over 7,700 children were evacuated from Britain to Canada for the duration of the war. Eighty percent were private evacuees sent abroad by wealthy families or sponsored by companies, service clubs, and institutions; they were accompanied by some 1,500 mothers
In 1939 with war about to break out, the government expected major air attacks on all [...]

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Story Eighty-Eight: Prisoners of War

Approximately 9,000 Canadian soldiers, airmen, naval sailors and merchant seamen were captured by the enemy and held as prisoners of war (POWs) during the  Second World War.
The first Canadian POW  was  Flying Officer Alfred B. Thompson of Penetanguishene, Ont., who had joined the RAF in 1937  and was  captured on Sept. 9, 1939
1,946 who were [...]

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Story Eighty-Seven: War Brides

Canadian War Brides
Oshawa and in other parts of Canada saw an influx of  Warbrides,  the Canadian Government established the Canadian Wives’ Bureau, whose job it was to assist the wives of Canadian servicemen and their children, and to make arrangements
World  War One
The Department of Immigration and Colonization repatriated over 54,500 soldiers’ [...]

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Story Eighty-Six : War Posters

Canadian war posters during World War II were works of art, both colourful and dramatic They were distributed widely in movie houses, buses, billboards, etc Providing an insight in the attitude of the times
Produced by the Bureau of Public Information and the Wartime Information Board (WIB),
The slideshow is complimented [...]

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Story: Eight-Five: Fallen Heros

This is a good powerpoint presentation posted to the Slideshare Website.

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