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Stories of Service and Sacrifice
Lyle McIvor
Army • Home Town: Carmon, Manitoba
In all the books they write, they mention Evans but nobody ever mentions my buddy Tolver and he's the one that went back out to get Evans.
Robert “Bob” Stewart
Army • Home Town: Saint John, New Brunswick
And that’s what bothered me the most anyway was the sense of failure when you lost somebody. Because you always think, well, if I’d known a little more, maybe I could have saved him.
Claude Petit
Army Listen Audio Interview
Frank Jefferies
Army Listen Audio Interview
Raphael “Ralph” Dael
Army Listen Audio Interview
Pamela MacLeod
Civilian Listen Audio Interview
Paul Tomelin
Army • Home Town: Calgary, Alberta
My experience during the Second World War convinced me that war was hell. And when I was in Korea, I think that’s what I tried to get out with my photographs, that war was hell.
Francis Bayne
Army • Home Town: Guelph, Ontario
So our guns fired steadily all night, the barrels got red hot and we were throwing water on them to try and cool them down. So we fired right through until dawn, until the Chinese withdrew.
Frank “Brownie” Cramp
Navy • Home Town: London, United Kingdom
And every bullet that hit him knocked him back about six inches, still with his gun dangling in his hand and he was going back, back, back, blood coming out everywhere.
Arthur “Ken” Dean
Air Force • Home Town: Sorrento, British Columbia
I often used to wonder really what happened to people down there. But again, war was war.
Carol Duffus
Navy Listen Audio Interview
Arnold “Mac” McCourt
Army Listen Audio Interview
Peter Fane
Navy Listen Audio Interview
Joseph “Tex” Wilson
Navy Listen Audio Interview
Del Budd
Air Force • Home Town: Guelph, Ontario
And it took about an hour to convince these nurses when we’re flying that I was really the pilot. So to pacify them, I took them down, oh, maybe about 15 feet off the ground so they could get good pictures
John “Potts” Potter
Navy • Home Town: Toronto, Ontario
The big time was down the Mediterranean, that was very, very scary and exciting at the same time.
