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Title: Epilogue - Valour at Sea - Canada's Merchant Navy
 
Type: Document
Description: The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle of the Second World War continuing unbroken from the first day of the war, September 3, 1939, to the last day of the war in Europe, May 8, 1945. All told the history of the Merchant Navy in Canada's wars is one of fortitude, courage and achievement. The ships and the volunteers who served in them made the difference between victory and defeat for the Allies. Fortress Europe could not have been invaded without them.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Canadians in Italy
 
Type: Document
Description: A discussion of the Canadian involvement in the Italian Campaign of World War II as Allied forces advanced up the Italian peninsula. When the Italian government surrendered on September 3, 1943, the Germans immediately seized control and thus it was German troops that the Allies confronted.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Landing at Inchon - Canadians in Korea
 
Type: Document
Description: Following the Inchon landings and the UN successes of September and October 1950, the end of the war in Korea seemed imminent. It was, therefore, decided to limit the Canadian contribution to one battalion to be used for occupation duties.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Rhineland Campaign - Canada and the Second World War, 1939-1945
 
Type: Document
Description: In February 1945 the Allies launched a large offensive to drive the enemy back over the Rhine and bring about his final defeat. In fierce fighting British and Canadian soldiers eventually cracked the vaunted Siegfried Line, but much hard fighting lay ahead for the Allies.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: 1998 Remembrance Day Poster
 
Type: Document Image
Description: The armistice to end the First World War took effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. Our Remembrance Day poster this year commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of that War.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Willemina Squires - My Grandmother's Wartime Diary - Canada and the Se...
 
Type: Document
Description: One woman's memories of Holland during WWII reveal how the loss of friends was one of the sad and lasting consequences of the war.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Newfoundland National Memorial
 
Type: Document
Description: Britain's "oldest colony" sent 8,500 soldiers and sailors abroad in the First World War, out of a population of less than 250,000, over 1,500 gave their lives. This Memorial commemorates all of Newfoundland's wartime achievements on land and sea.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Newfoundland Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
 
Type: Document Image
Description: Canada lost many men in the battles of World War One. At Beaumont Hamel a regiment from Newfoundland showed their courage but lost 255 men from its force of 801. Only 63 were left unwounded. The bronze caribou, the emblem of the Newfoundland Regiment, looks out over the site where these brave men fought and died.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Ellen Blanche (Landry) Bennett - My Grandmother's Wartime Diary - Cana...
 
Type: Document
Description: The end of the war was not the happiest time for the people of Halifax. The overcrowded city experienced rioting, looting, and an explosion, which forced part of the city to be evacuated for several days.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
Title: Last Major Encounters - Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
 
Type: Document
Description: In 1944 German U-boats returned to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which had been re-opened to trans-Atlantic vessels, intent on repeating their successes of 1942. By this time the Royal Canadian Navy was more adept at anti-submarine warfare, and its convoy procedures were much improved. Maritime air patrols were more proficient too. The U-boats returned with a potentially deadly advantage, however: the newly invented schnorkel mast.
Site: Veterans Affairs Canada
 
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