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Stories of Service and Sacrifice
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.
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.
Arsène Dubé
Army Listen Audio Interview
Joseph Ganin
Army Listen Audio Interview
Edison MacDonald
Army Listen Audio Interview
Joseph Gallant
Army Listen Audio Interview
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.
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.
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.
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.
Helen Rapp
Army Listen Audio Interview
George Kelley
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Ella Curtis
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
George Carter
Army Listen Audio Interview
Ernest Bone
Air Force • Home Town: Deptford, United Kingdom
There is no black or white in war, only gradations with much grey in between.
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.
