Super collection and I'll bet there's a story behind each one of them!
Of course! Please feel free to share anything you like.
Both these stories are about souvenirs that originated in Holland and wound up in Canada, important and meaningful family mementos of the...
Fred Sutherland is the last surviving Canadian dambuster, only one of three left in the world. He's also a family man and an all-round great...
There are probably hundreds of them out there, but here are the ten that I have enjoyed the most. Click on the Wartime Wednesdays link to see the...
Eugenie Francoeur served at a bomber base in Britain, where she witnessed horrific crashes, dodged bombs, and worked around the clock on D-Day. It...
Wartime Wednesdays today features an inspirational interview with Jessie Middleton of Abbotsford, British Columbia, now aged 98. She nursed our...
June 3, 2015 marks the 71st anniversary of an incident in which a young bomb-aimer from Regina, Saskatchewan named Jack Dye saved the whole crew...
Of all the work performed by women in uniform, packing the parachutes -- those complicated contraptions of silk and leather -- meant the...
Author and journalist Tony Cashman is famous for his lifelong contribution to the history of Edmonton, Alberta -- but less known for the...
Thanks, LRusso! I appreciate your help. And thanks for the comment as well.
AN INCREDIBLE STORY -- My new friend Hank Herzberg of Chicago, almost 96 years old, escaped from Nazi Germany, enlisted in the US Army, and...
Thank you, I remember the story about Just Jane, bought by two brothers of the airman. It's also a good story. I'm going to put a link in my blog...
Ron Jenkins of Calgary, Alberta, is probably the only guy in history to have purchased the Lancaster he flew during the war. Here he tells in his...
Now 96 years old, Georgina Harvey was a young woman from a well-known family in Kelowna, British Columbia, when she joined the Royal Canadian Air...
Bomber Command veteran Frank Jones makes contact with family of former Lancaster pilot Leo Richer, plus other aviation tidbits, on today's Wartime...
Sorry, you will have to come to Canada! But thanks for the comment.
Happy Valentine's Day, wartime lovers... And enjoy these stories from my inbox. Click on the link below to read Wartime Wednesdays.
The Yad Vashem website says some people offered to help just for a short time, or in a small way, and then found themselves willing to go farther,...
