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Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

- Winston Churchill

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429 T Sqn
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429 Transport Squadron


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Today in Military History

August 9



1918:

VC won by A/Cpl Alexander Picton Brereton, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France


1918:

VC won by Cpl Frederick George Coppins, 8th Battalion, CEF, Amiens (Hackey Wood), France


1918:

VC won by Lt Jean Brillant, 22nd Battalion, CEF, Meharicourt, France (near Amiens) (posthumous)


1918:

VC won by Sgt Raphael Louis Zengel, MM, 5th Battalion, CEF, Amiens, France


1945:

Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki


1945:

VC won by Robert Hampton Gray, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (attached to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy), Onagawa Wan, Japan (posthumous)




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