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National Remembrance Day ceremony marks 80th anniversary of Dieppe raid
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoThis year's national Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa marks the first...
People from Dieppe, N.B. travel to France for commemoration of 1942 Dieppe raid
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoA delegation from Dieppe, New Brunswick is in France this week to take part in ceremonies...
National ceremony in Windsor, Ont., marks 80th anniversary of raid in Dieppe, France
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoA national memorial Friday at Dieppe Gardens in Windsor, Ont., remembered Canadians who died 80...
Essex and Kent Scottish reservists off to Dieppe ceremonies in France
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoOn August 19, 1942, 553 members of the Essex Scottish Regiment took part in the ill-fated raid on...
D-Day: how allies prepared military build-up of astonishing dimensions
The Week via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoAmerican troops land at Omaha Beach in Normandy. The Americans had been pushing for an invasion of...
Scottish village’s ‘pivotal’ role in secret preparations for D-Day landings
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoSituated on a quiet stretch of coastline in Dumfries and Galloway, the peaceful village of...
D-Day: the biggest seaborne invasion in history
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoEarly on the morning of June 5 1944, General Dwight D Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander in Europe, finally gave the order to go ahead, telling his...
Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoU.S. Army Rangers prepare to depart England for the D-Day invasion. Photo12/UIG/Getty Images Among...
Nova Scotia's 'ace of aces' took down his first enemy plane 80 years ago today
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoGrowing up in Pictou, N.S., Murray Hill was well aware of the legacy of his uncle, George Urquhart...
'The least they could do': Veterans push Canada to award its first Victoria Cross
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoDuring the U.S. Civil War, soldiers reported witnessing a peculiar phenomenon that later became...