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Remembering a World at War

Round about the time my father left home in Norwich and got down to serious training with the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve at H.M.C.S. Star in Hamilton in 1941, the following news was coming out of Europe:

German U-boats played havoc with Allied shipping in the Atlantic.

["H.M.S. Ark Royal torpedoed and sinking";

photo from SEIGE: MALTA - 1940 - 1943]

The German battleship Bismarck was sunk at 6:00 a.m., May 24.

["Survivors from the Bismarck, covered in oil, are picked up by

a British ship"; Photo - pg. 133, 2194 DAYS OF WAR]

The Blitz was continuing in England's capital city

["Every night London is devastated by countless incendiary

bombs"; Photo - pg. 109, 2194 DAYS OF WAR]

Malta was being ground into dust the Luftwaffe.

["A building in Malta takes a direct hit from a German bomb";

pg. 90, FORGOTTEN VOICES of the Second World War¨]

Canadian men and women would have had much on their minds while doing countless new drills.

More to follow.

Photos by GH

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