That's amazing history there, and thank you for soldiers like him who provided us the life and values we enjoy. I don't know how hard it is to access, but the Canadian and British armies kept really detailed records and dairies you can likely search and find out all kinds of info. A colleague at work had access to highly detailed diaries of his father, a Canadian, in Italy. Like literally, which street he was on when he turned the corner and was confronted by a German tank and decapacitated it and took 4 prisoners etc. He was able to take a trip and rewalk much of his events.
We went to the Mahone Bay cenotaph service, it was rainy and windy but still had a large turnout , we go every year. My uncle was in Italy, my Dad had flat feet so volunteered for merchant navy in 1939, he was 19. He spent war in convoys on a Norwegian tanker, returned home in 1945. He convoyed the whole time, Venezuela, east coast USA to Halifax, then to Europe. He never talked much but he saw a lot of sinkings with ships on fire. We were watching that old movie about a German sub(s) surfacing inside a convoy and sinking many ships, he said I was there.
We had a military pilot training airport near where I lived as a kid in pei, Mountain Pleasant airport- it was mostly demolished in the 60s. We had the remains of crashed yellow training aircraft wed find in the woods, one was in a tree.
Lest we forget- Hitler, etc. and all the people who died and were severely damaged in the 2 world wars and serving in our military in all the later years. I have a nephew in BC, hes an officer on a destroyer, he just had his first child, a baby boy. You have to be an optimist to have a baby?
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Mahone Bay, NS Still not old enough to need an automatic
