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Description: Report on rebels within the Two Commando unit, part of the Canadian Airborne Regiment. Five soldiers from this unit were barred from participating in the Somalia mission, but some may have gone to Belet Huen. Members of the Two Commando unit were involved in many of the scandals that took place in Somalia during their peacekeeping mission there.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: Television clip shows the daily life of Canadian soldiers in Korea as they prepare to celebrate Christmas of 1953 a long way from home.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: This 1942 radio clip recounts the story of early Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division recruits - Canada's first servicewomen. Originally created in 1941 as the Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force, the branch was renamed a year later and was the first to accept women.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: In this 1972 CBC television interview, Cardinal Maurice Roy recounts his experiences and role as military chaplain during World War II.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: The nightly ritual of making tea in the trenches is described in detail.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: Major Vince Buonamici, a Military Police Officer, testifies at the Somali Inquiry that he investigated two shooting deaths of Somalis by Airborne soldiers in 1993. He reports that the military chain of command deliberately delayed his work - work that could have prevented Shidane Arone's death.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: Kyle Brown is found guilty of the manslaughter and torture of Shidane Arone, but some Somalis living in Canada are outraged with the sentence that was handed to him. Ahmed Adan, a Somalian-Canadian, expresses his disappointment with how the Canadian government has dealt with the Somalia Inquiry and how he feels Canada has failed Shidane Arone.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Title: 1939-1945 - A Soldier's War
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Description: From 1939 to 1945 Canadian soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lived and died in lands far from home. CBC Radio was one of the few links friends and family in Canada had to their loved ones abroad. Through reports from the front, dramatizations and direct greetings from soldiers, CBC revealed what life on the battlefront was like.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: An army cook discusses plans for Christmas dinner at the front in Holland.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Description: During the Second World War, rumours circulated amongst the civilian population that servicewomen were not living up to the high moral standards of their civilian counterparts. In this excerpt from the TV program "Women at War," several women who were officers in WW II recall the efforts made to enforce discipline among female recruits.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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