Air-Force.ca's Fallen Comrades

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

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Information Minister

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Military Word Of The Day

OJTS

on-job training standard

Today in Military History

September 27

1918:

CANAL DU NORD, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 1 Oct 18)

1918:

VC won by Lt George Fraser Kerr, 3rd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood (near Cambrai), France

1918:

VC won by Lt Graham Thomson Lyall, 102nd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood

1941:

First Liberty ship, the Patrick Henry launched in Baltimore

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