Air Force • Home Town:
Clydebank, United Kingdom
I saw him when he went... after he had done his first operations - they’d gone down on the target, there was anti-aircraft guns there apparently aplenty, and it was kind of a rough show. So we had lunch together and he was talking about how hot this anti-aircraft fire was - he went on a trip in the afternoon. That was two trips and he didn’t come back from the second one.
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Army • Home Town:
Beaconsfield, Quebec
We were a casualty clearing station on D Day. So we had boys back from the battlefield the same day.
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Army • Home Town:
Saint John, New Brunswick
We said, Jerry is going to catch hell now and we got the news on the radio; the invasion had started.
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Air Force • Home Town:
Montreal, Quebec
There was a lot of targets but both sides were doing cruel things. There’s nothing sweet or easy about war and there’s nobody fighting clean wars anymore.
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