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Stories of Service and Sacrifice
Frank Wood
Army • Home Town: Peterborough, Ontario
Over to the Chinese side on the Sami-ch’on Valley, and my God when they started to appear I don’t know. I just can’t describe it. Like a huge flock of cattle or herd of cattle or flock of chickens or there was just massive. And the valley by this time was pretty well packed with Chinese.
Raphael “Ralph” Dael
Army • Home Town: Ypres, Belgium
We have to realize, that 1952 it was a trench war. And we got visits during the night, always during the night, by the enemy. But we had to make sure that they didn’t get into our lines.
Lucien Dion
Army Listen Audio Interview
Art Baker
Army Listen Audio Interview
Arthur Lortie
Army Listen Audio Interview
Peter Chisholm
Army Listen Audio Interview
Ron Carruth
Army • Home Town: Toronto, Ontario
Walking down this trail, which could have been mined, we didn’t know. It could have been trip bombs or trip wires set on it.
Daniel Kendrick
Navy • Home Town: Simcoe, Ontario
And I remember going down in there and looking and all I could see was big black rocks and black water and a great big hole.
Maurice “Whitey” White
Army • Home Town: Edmonton, Alberta
As soon as I’d start to move they were shooting up flares and of course when a flare goes up, you got to take cover and lay still until the flare goes out. And that was very traumatizing. I actually said to my mother out loud, “Please mother, help me!”
David Peat
Army • Home Town: Loverna, Saskatchewan
Well, they fired, the Germans turned a mortar and a bit exploded and these guys all went down in a group, all over the place.
George Carter
Army Listen Audio Interview
James Newell
Army Listen Audio Interview
Frank Moore
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Marjorie Barton
Air Force Listen Audio Interview
Léo Fortin
Air Force • Home Town: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
They also sent parachutes with bombs to start forest fires. When a forest fire started, we had to go and put it out, sometimes even at night.
Nicholas Melnechuk
Air Force • Home Town: Alberta
And all of a sudden, I walked through a clearing and the German planes were over us and that’s what the guns were shooting at them. And the bomb exploded; and I beat them all to the dugout
