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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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If I were asked to define leadership, I should say it is the projection of personality. It is the most intensely personal thing in the world because it is just plain you.
The qualities that distinguish a leader from other men are courage, will power, initiative, and knowledge. If you have not got those qualities you will not make a leader; if you have them, you will.
- Field Marshal Sir William Slim from an address at West Point, circa 1950:
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January 23
1941: Oberleutant Franz von Warrna escapes from a train near Smiths Falls, ON and returns to Europe: he is believed to be the only Axis prisoner of war from Canada to make it back across the Atlantic.
1943: Tripoli taken by Eigth Army
1945: The Attack on Montforterbeek. (45 Cdo RM)
1948: The Royal Canadian Air Force takes delivery of its first De Havilland Vampire jet fighter (destined for No. 410 Squadron)
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