Most Canadians are broadly familiar with Canada’s great contribution to the war in Europe from Dieppe, Southern Italy and Normandy to the Falaise Gap and the liberation of Belgium and Holland.įar fewer Canadians know much about their 10,000 countrymen who fought in Alaska, flew missions over the Burma Hump with troops, ammunition and other supplies, and were pilots, navigators and gunners attached to Royal Air Force squadrons that attacked the Japanese in Malaya, Java (Indonesia) and elsewhere It is therefore perhaps a good time to revisit Canada’s part 75 years ago in the war against Japan. With tensions on the boil again in the Indo-Pacific, the potential for Canadians becoming somehow drawn into a conflict between the West and China is rising. Infamously, Cosgrove put his signature on the wrong line, obliging all the allied officers who went after him to sign one line below where they were supposed to have.Ĭanadian troops were also to have been part of the invasion of Japan that was aborted after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Playing football may increase risk of Parkinson’s disease in men, study finds.How Metallica rocking Montreal’s Olympic Stadium reignites debate about venue’s relevance.Canada ‘absolutely’ can’t build more houses without more immigrants, minister says. ![]() ![]() Listeria in ice cream? Why some frozen desserts are being recalled in Canada.
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