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Operation Nimble Bat

Location: West Germany Mission Date: 1 October 1952 – 30 August 1953 Canadian Forces (CF) Information (NIMBLE BAT) Canadian Task Force Name Mission Statement: To ferry RCAF aircraft to No. 1 RCAF Air Division in Europe. CF Mission/Operation Notes: With the...

Rwanda

The Rwandan Civil War was a conflict between the Rwandan Armed Forces, representing the government of Rwanda, and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). The war, which lasted from 1990 to 1994, arose from the long-running dispute between the Hutu and Tutsi groups...

Ronnie -The Bren Gun Girl

Veronica Foster, popularly known as “Ronnie, The Bren Gun Girl”, worked for the John Inglis Co. producing Bren Light Machine Guns and became the Canadian propaganda ‘Poster Girl’, representing the nearly one million Canadian women who worked in...