Our Stories

When the sound stops

Nov 22, 2017

As part of the British Military Police during WWII, Joyce watched as London burned through German bombing raids, soldiers kissed their families goodbye, and children huddled underground.

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Escape Artist

Nov 14, 2017

A soldier in the Italian army, Angelo escaped his German captors not once, but twice.

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Navigating the War

Nov 10, 2017

Charlie Gallagher joined the British Royal Air Force when he was 17 years old, flying over the darkened skies that clouded 1944 Europe.

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Thirteen-Thousand Feet

Nov 03, 2017

As a paratrooper in the Second World War, Sergeant Dennis Cutting has seen a thing or two, even from a bridge too far.

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Commanding the wounded

Nov 11, 2016

In 1944, 18-year-old Mary Greenwood made the 70-killometer trip across the open waters of the Bay of Fundy in what she calls “lifeboat situations.”

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When they say no

Nov 11, 2016

Don Monroe, a Flying Officer and flight instructor in the Royal Canadian Air Force, squinted, trying to see past the blizzard that had destroyed his visibility.