Air-Force.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old



If you are able, save for them a place inside you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.

- Major Michael Davis O’Donnell

Viewed 164697 times.
       


» Download the iPhone/iPad Military Quotes app! «


Military Word Of The Day
COMEDCOM
:
corps medical command


» Download the iPhone/iPad Military Terms app! «


Today in Military History

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)




» Download the iPhone/iPad Military History app! «


Advertising