Archive for July, 2007
Canada Corner
Exploring David Thompson
In late June, as schools across the country closed for the summer and families prepared for their annual vacations, 67-year-old Norm Crerar planned to slip into an eight-metre (25-foot) wood-and-Fiberglas canoe with five other paddling enthusiasts at Canal Flats, [...]
July 1, 2007, by D'Arcy Jenish
Canadian Military History in Perspective
The Arielli Show: Army, Part 71
General Bernard Montgomery’s “colossal crack” of December 1943, an advance by 8th Army to Pescara and the lateral road to Rome, was intended to outflank the enemy positions at Cassino. By late December it was evident that these operations had stalled. [...]
July 1, 2007, by Terry Copp
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Flyboys In The Great Escape: Air Force, Part 22
The Great Escape has become almost an advertising cliché, from vacation planning to retirement programs. In spite of such modern obfuscation, the original Great Escape remains one of the most famous events of World War II.
Capping a two-year project, 76 British, Commonwealth and Allied [...]
July 1, 2007, by Hugh A. Halliday
Canadian Military History in Perspective
Dispatching The Destroyers: Navy, Part 22
The German landings in Norway in April 1940 were a portend. The Phoney War had ended and with the spring came the long expected German assault on the Low Countries and France. That attack started in earnest on May 10 with German forces pouring [...]
July 1, 2007, by Marc Milner
Canada Corner
Bones In The Badlands
In seconds the classroom in Red Deer, Alta., erupts into a loud and prolonged burst of “Ewwwww!” followed by a short, but audible, “That’s gross!” Tucked in between those expressions–and originating from somewhere near the back of the class–is a [...]
July 1, 2007, by Dan Black
Defence Today
Families Of Injured Soldiers Get Legion Support
Families visiting injured Canadian soldiers coming from Afghanistan can rest in some comfort with help from a $20,000 donation made by The Royal Canadian Legion to Fisher House in Landstuhl, Germany.
There are two Fisher homes in Landstuhl across the street [...]
July 1, 2007
Defence Today
Troops Say Thanks For Care Packages
Canadian Forces soldiers in the Middle East are far from home and living in tough conditions in an uncertain environment. At any time of year their mission is a tough one, but at Christmas–when family and friends are celebrating the holidays back in Canada–it’s [...]
July 1, 2007, by Adam Day
Defence Today
Legion Delivers With RCL Troop Morale Fund
With the high frequency of deployment for the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan, sustaining morale is crucial. Which is why now is the perfect time for The Royal Canadian Legion’s Troop Morale Fund to pick up and begin hitting its stride.
It is now more than six years [...]
July 1, 2007, by Adam Day
Defence Today
Delays Unfair To Soldier’s Family
The House of Commons was in an uproar April 25 over ongoing allegations that Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan regularly turn over their prisoners to be tortured by Afghan secret police, and that the government was covering up the story.
On that very same April 25 the ombudsman [...]
July 1, 2007, by David J. Bercuson
Defence Today
Secret Security
This spring, in the unlikely town of Norman Wells, N.W.T., just south of the Arctic Circle, a small group of al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants were on the attack. They wanted to sabotage North America’s oil supply and the RCMP and the Canadian Forces [...]
July 1, 2007, by Adam Day
