by brucericketts | Mar 8, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest campaign of World War II. In it, the German navy tried to sever the Allied sea lines of communication along which supplies necessary to fight the war were sent to Great Britain. To carry out the battle, the Germans employed a...
by brucericketts | Mar 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Artillery played a significant role during the First World War. In general, the guns remained behind your lines and lobbed shells over your head to destroy the enemy and its defensive infrastructure. Problem was that the enemy was doing the same. The task was to...
by brucericketts | Mar 8, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
Ellis Pringle Craig, a retired RCMP Commissioner residing in Ottawa, wrote this song for Canada… We are Canadians. Alan Sandeman does a fine job in he...
by brucericketts | Mar 6, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
Records for military personnel who served in countries other than Canada are generally retained at the national archives of the applicable country. The list below includes URLs for: United States of America -https://www.archives.gov/veterans United Kingdom –...
by brucericketts | Mar 5, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
Geroge Buerling’s story is told in this video and on a Wikipedia page :<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Beurling>...
by brucericketts | Mar 5, 2019 | Operations, Uncategorized
This video chronicles, very well, the Canadian tank war in Italy....
