Canada
The War of 1812: Slugfest at the Battle of Lundy’s Lane
by Mike PhiferIn the cover of darkness and fog, American troops quietly made their way down to the edge of the Niagara River. Read more
Canada
Hell in a Small Place: the Canadian Paratroopers of Operation Varsity
By Bernd HornIn the hut no one spoke, no one joked. The assembled British and Canadian paratroop commanders awaited the briefing from their brigade commander on their next major operation. Read more
Canada
WWII Fighter Aces: Ralph K. ‘Kid’ Hofer
by Paul B. CoraHe could be described as reckless, impulsive, undisciplined, lucky, fearless, and also as one of the most successful fighter pilots in the history of the U.S. Read more
Canada
The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada in the Rhineland, 1945
By Angus ScullyBy February 1945, the green Allied formations that landed on D-Day had become hard professional armies. Army, corps, and division commands had been shaken down and were operating efficiently. Read more
Canada
Fighting for the Hook
By Al HemingwayPeering intently through a telescope, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the commandant of the Marine Corps, scanned the shell-pocked Korean terrain in front of his position. Read more
Canada
Disaster at Queenston Heights
By Chuck LyonsIn June 1812, the United States, provoked by arrogant British actions on the high seas and its support of hostile Indians in the Northwest Territories, declared war on Great Britain and immediately began planning an invasion of British-held Canada. Read more
Canada
Reckoning at Horseshoe Bend
By Christopher G. MarquisIn the late summer of 1813, some 550 men, women, and children took refuge within a small wilderness outpost and waited for the worst. Read more
Canada
Canadian Valor at the Battle of Amiens
By Mike PhiferThe drone of a Royal Air Force bomber could be heard overhead in the early morning of August 8, 1918, as it flew up and down the Allied line near Amiens, France. Read more
Canada
Canada’s Darkest Day During World War II
By Brent DyckOn the morning of August 19, 1942, the Canadian 2nd Division sailed across the English Channel and attacked the Nazi-held port of Dieppe, France. Read more
Canada
D-Day Casualties: Operation Overlord by the Numbers
The largest amphibious invasion in history began on the night of June 5-6, with the roar of C-47 engines preparing to take off , and climaxed on the beaches of Normandy. Read more
Canada
The Lee-Enfield Bolt Action Rifle
By Christopher MiskimonA small party of about 40 German soldiers had infiltrated the Australian lines around the besieged town of Tobruk, Libya, during the night of April 13, 1941. Read more
Canada
Soldiers of Juno: The Canadian Invasion of Normandy
By Dorothy BrothertonAs John Wesley Pointon jumped into the cold English Channel water with the Royal Canadian 7th Brigade Signal Corps and struggled with a heavy radio strapped to his back toward the beach that was being torn apart by shot and shell, the farm boy from Saskatchewan tried to make his mind go blank. Read more
Canada
D-Day+1: Canadians at the Battle of Buron and Authie
By Herb KugelOn June 7, 1944, D+1, two volunteer Canadian 3rd Division, 9th Infantry Brigade regiments, the North Nova Scotia Highlanders (the North Novas) and the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment (the Sherbrooke Fusiliers)—together with volunteer units from the Camerons of Ottawa and Forward Observers from the 14th Field Regiment—fought an important but now generally forgotten battle in Normandy. Read more
Canada
The Congreve Rocket: Britannia’s Red Glare
By Blaine TaylorDuring the October 1813 Battle of Nations at Leipzig between the French, under Emperor Napoleon I, and the German-Swedish-Russian-English coalition, French troops were astonished to see whooshing smoking rockets flying at them from enemy lines. Read more
Canada
Silver Screen Surprise: Norvald Flaaten Recalls His Wartime Careers
By Jason AntonioNorvald Flaaten never expected he would appear in a movie when he signed up with the Canadian Army during World War II, but the subject of the movie and what he had to do was too good to pass up. Read more
Canada
D-Day’s Concrete Fleet: Making the Mulberry Harbors
By Michael D. HullNo Allied amphibious invasion in World War II left such a bitter legacy as Operation Jubilee, the ill-fated British-Canadian raid on the northern French port of Dieppe on Wednesday, August 19, 1942. Read more
Canada
Colonel John Allen and the River Raisin Debacle
By Stuart W. SandersIt had been eight years since Jane Logan Allen’s husband, Colonel John Allen, had departed with his regiment. Read more
Canada
Aubrey Cosens of the Queen’s Own Rifles
by Angus ScullyAubrey Cosens was the first soldier of the Third Canadian Division to earn the Victoria Cross in World War II—and this was a division that had landed on D-Day, taken 76 percent casualties in Normandy, and used its amphibious warfare experience to defeat the Germans in Holland. Read more
Canada
Ben Dunkelman of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada
by Angus ScullyBen Dunkelman was born in 1913 in Toronto to a wealthy Jewish family. His father owned Tip Top Tailors, Canada’s largest manufacturer and seller of men’s clothing. Read more
Canada
Little Stalingrad: The Struggle for Ortona
By Jerome BaldwinBy the autumn of 1943, the Allied armies fighting in Italy had discovered that Winston Churchill’s description of Italy as the “soft underbelly of Europe” had been a falsehood of monumental proportions. Read more
