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Crerar’s campaign

General Harry Crerar oversaw just one major battle—but the decisive early 1945 advance into Germany’s Rhineland was critical to ending WW II

The mobilization men

Known derisively as zombies, thousands of Canadian men were conscripted—originally for home defence—under the WW II National Resources Mobilization Act. Late in the war, many were forced to the front lines.

King of necessary

Looking back on Prime Minister Mackenzie King as Canada’s wartime leader.

Professor Healy and the partisans

Canadian Captain Dennis Healy, a peacetime university prof, played a pivotal role alongside locals in the liberation of the Italian city of Ravenna

Bombs away

The wild story of Japanese balloon bombs floated over North America

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An informative primer on Canada’s crucial role in the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944.