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Canada and the Scheldt Campaign: The Necessary Victory

Legion Magazine — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:23:12 +0000

It’s 1944 and, as Allied armies fight their way through France, supply lines are stretched thin. The tools of war must travel from Normandy to a front that’s moving further from the D-Day beaches by the moment. The Belgian port at Antwerp offers the solution the Allies need—extensive docks and facilities ideally situated to support …

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“Those damn women” – Special web feature

Legion Magazine — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 19:41:11 +0000

Canadian female fighter jet pilots first took to the skies 30-plus years ago—but few have followed in their vapour trails

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RCAF : Celebrating the centennial of the Royal Canadian Air Force

Legion Magazine — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 19:54:47 +0000

On the wings of a burgeoning aviation culture of hinterland stick jockeys, airmail pilots and high-flying adventurers, the Royal Canadian Air Force emerges from 100 years of war and peace as a respected, if not feared, hunter, protector and humanitarian presence in troubled skies the world over. The fascinating story of the RCAF is one …

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Afghanistan: Canada’s Longest War Interactive Story

Legion Magazine — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:38:35 +0000

Afghanistan. At 12 years and three months, it was Canada’s longest war—a protracted conflict that ended in defeat. The last Canadian troops withdrew from the embattled country 10 years ago, in March 2014. But the fighting continued for another 7½ years, until August 2021 when the last coalition forces left and Taliban fighters swept into …

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Operation husky: The allies take Sicily Interactive Story

Legion Magazine — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:51:03 +0000

For almost four years, the forces of Nazi Germany have occupied Europe while the Allies fought in Africa and the Pacific. Now, on July 10, 1943, Canadian, British and American forces invade Sicily, a hot, mountainous, enemy-occupied island off Italy’s south coast. The Allied liberation of the continent has begun. View the interactive story here: …

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Korea: The war without end – Interactive story

Legion Magazine — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 19:39:05 +0000

Communist troops of the North Korean People’s Army attack the South on June 25, 1950. They are in Seoul in less than a week. A United Nations coalition resolves to stop them. Canada joins what is by any definition a war. For three years, Canadians fight iconic battles on land, sea and in the air; …

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Canada And The Great War: Liberation

Legion Magazine — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:24:37 +0000

By mid-October 1918, Canadian units were pushing the Germans back after inflicting a momentous defeat on the Kaiser’s forces in Cambrai, France. The Canucks bled for that victory, but it broke the back of the enemy defences, delivering a fatal blow to their immobile logistical system of roads and rail lines. The Interactive web …

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“Canada and the liberation of the Netherlands” – Awarded Gold for Best Interactive Story 2020!

Legion Magazine — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:00:52 +0000

At the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards held virtually on Feb. 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Legion Magazine was awarded Gold for Best Interactive Story for “Canada and the liberation of the Netherlands” The win marks the fourth time in the past five years Legion Magazine has won awards in this category, with a …

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“The October Crisis” – Awarded Silver for Best Interactive Story 2020!

Legion Magazine — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:04:33 +0000

At the 2020 Canadian Online Publishing Awards held virtually on Feb. 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Legion Magazine was awarded Silver for Best Interactive Story for “The October Crisis” The win marks the fourth time in the past five years Legion Magazine has won awards in this category, with a Gold in 2018 for …

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Military Moments | Passchendaele

Legion Magazine — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:33:08 +0000

Passchendaele slithers off the tongue like some reptilian creature’s name. The word for the 1917 battles east of Ypres, Belgium, represents a legacy of loss and repulsion. The forlorn and shell-eviscerated combat zone in Flanders was embattled throughout much of the war, and was a particularly vicious cockpit for the Canadians. Narrated by Canvet Publications’ Stephen J. …

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