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Stories of Service and Sacrifice

Arthur Lortie

Arthur Lortie

Army • Home Town: Quebec

We climbed the mountain, shouting and firing: grenades, machine guns, other guns. We opened fire as if there were 30 of us. We were only about 10.

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David Bowen

David Bowen

Army • Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta

There was some Chinese behind the lines, way behind the lines at an airfield with a little biplane and they’d come over at night and they’d drop hand grenades from the biplane and we’d call the guy “Bed Check Charlie” because he’d come around every few nights.

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Arsène Dubé

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Joseph Ganin

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Edison MacDonald

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Joseph Gallant

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Phillip Doucette

Phillip Doucette

Army • Home Town: Port au Port, Newfoundland and Labrador

It was good to see my friends, my family, my fiancée and to know that I was in a place that was safe, that I didn’t have to worry about walking the streets and no pressure. Had to face life on life’s terms. And to me, that was like gold. Like gold. Still is today.

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Peter Chance

Peter Chance

Navy • Home Town: Ottawa, Ontario

Everything went fine to start with and then as these people came off, they were not doing too well some of them, they were wounded and a couple DOAs but our doctor, Joe Cyr, was the hero.

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Geraldine Muter

Geraldine Muter

Air Force • Home Town: Sturgeon Falls, Ontario

The last day that we landed in Liverpool and the boys come out to meet us, flying home. Boy, there was a lot of crying that day. Oh yes, oh yes.

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Doug Dickson

Doug Dickson

Air Force • Home Town: Carlisle, Scotland, United Kingdom

And I would come zipping in, right through between the elevators and right over the house, that maybe 50 feet. And then do aerobatics all over the sky and so on, trying to impress my future bride.

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Helen Rapp

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George Kelley

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Ella Curtis

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George Carter

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Ernest Bone

Ernest Bone

Air Force • Home Town: Deptford, United Kingdom

There is no black or white in war, only gradations with much grey in between.

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John Bilyk

John Bilyk

Navy • Home Town: Canora, Saskatchewan

But we were never in contact with them, we were always on the outskirts of the convoy. We kind of kept them like an old mother hen, keep their kids, her chicks under her wings.

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