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Stories of Service and Sacrifice
Elphège Renaud
Army • Home Town: St-Féréole (Qc), Quebec
But I know that Tremblay and Fong died, because the guys dragged them away in order to take our positions. But it wasn’t us who found Paul Dugal, it was the Chinese [...]
Herménégilde Dussault
• Home Town: Quebec City, Quebec
The transcription in English is not available at this time. Please refer to the transcript in French.
Phillip Doucette
Army Listen Audio Interview
Gilles Martin
Army Listen Audio Interview
Frank Smyth
Army Listen Audio Interview
Roy Jardine
Army Listen Audio Interview
Don Allen
Army • Home Town: Halifax, Nova Scotia
They found out that the bodies had been booby-trapped, which meant that if they touched them, they simply would blow up.
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.
Arthur Wall
Navy • Home Town: Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
We sank the sub and rescued 19 German seamen, one of whom was a chap called Waldimar Nicol who later, at a reunion that we held in Picton, was invited as a guest of honour from Germany.
Paul Boulet
Army • Home Town: St Paul du Button, Quebec
Some of them told me about the terrible way they had been treated after being caught. It wasn't funny.
John Deluca
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
George Knowles
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Louis “Lou” Howard
Navy Listen Audio Interview
William “Bill” Kondra
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Ernest “Ernie” Wood
Army • Home Town: Westlock, Alberta
If you stayed out too long, from the front line, it was very hard to go back in. You were better off just going in and out, going in and out all the time.
Fernand Léveillée
Navy • Home Town: Montreal, Quebec
A submarine is underneath, in the water. We used to send at every second a sound [signal]: bong, bong, bong, bong. Oop! Bong! We hit something.
