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by Ray Dick
An Aurora sits on the tarmac at CFB Greenwood. The planes and helicopters are old–some of the oldest in the Canadian Forces–but whether they’re used to check out a suspicious cargo ship in the mid-Atlantic, answer a distress call in the Far North or react to a crisis in their own back yard, the men and women of 14 Wing at Canadian Forces Base Greenwood rely on them to get the job done. Operating from their base in Nova Scotia’s mainly fog-free Annapolis Valley, the [...]
Pipers play a lament at the burial of 55 members of the Black Watch following the fighting in October. On Oct. 2, 1944, General Guy Simonds, who had temporarily replaced an ailing Gen. Harry Crerar, issued his first directive as the acting commander of First Canadian Army. The task of clearing the approaches to the already liberated city of Antwerp in Belgium, the banks of the Scheldt Estuary, was assigned to 2nd and 3rd Cdn. infantry divisions. Third Division was to attack Scheldt Fortress South which the Canadians [...]
