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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 [...]
Gilles Martin
Army • Home Town: New Richmond, Quebec
For quite a long time, I wondered if it was really worth it. [...] Well, after reflecting [...] I understood that if we hadn’t gone, history would definitely not have been the same.
Phillip Doucette
Army Listen Audio Interview
Don Allen
Army Listen Audio Interview
Frank Smyth
Army Listen Audio Interview
Francis Bayne
Army Listen Audio Interview
Roy Jardine
Army • Home Town: Oliver, British Columbia
And both barrels on my 50 cal were gone, couldn’t use it anymore, and that was the end of the battle, by then, anyways. It’s a terrible thing to have to stand up and fire when everybody can see you.
Herménégilde Dussault
• Home Town: Quebec City, Quebec
The transcription in English is not available at this time. Please refer to the transcript in French.
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.
John Deluca
Air Force • Home Town: Thunder Bay, Ontario
And I pointed to, “Can you hide me?” And they pointed to two soldiers that were running with their rifles up and they took me prisoner.
Ernest “Ernie” Wood
Army Listen Audio Interview
William “Bill” Kondra
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Thomas “'Sparks' *Refers to his position as a Radioman” Atherton
Merchant Navy Listen Audio Interview
Louis “Lou” Howard
Navy Listen Audio Interview
George Knowles
Air Force • Home Town: Birmingham, United Kingdom
I remember hitting the water and was knocked out for a few seconds. Within minutes, I could feel the numbing cold of the North Sea water. There was little survival time. Even in June, the water was icy cold.
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.
