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Daniel Goniea

Daniel Goniea | River Rouge, Michigan, USA

"You wouldn’t think there would be that many planes in the world, let alone in England."

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Samuel  Eros

Samuel Eros | Saskachewan, British Columbia

"It was rough but then, that was the thing you had to accept. You either got killed or you got wounded, or you survived. And a lot of them were killed."

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Benjamin Lang

Benjamin Lang | Edmonton, Alberta

"we came across a camp of Germans who were well fortified. And we could see them and hear them talking, but we didn’t fire on them because we knew that as soon as we did that, we would all be wiped out."

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Adrien Boivin

Adrien Boivin | Kenogami (Saguenay), Quebec

"That's only at the end of the day that I reacted to this event."

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Antonio Brisebois

Antonio Brisebois | Quebec

"The experience of Dieppe was terrible. We did the raid always in the same date, on August 19th, 1942. I was a little more lucky than the others..."

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Roger Campagna

Roger Campagna | Quebec

"I chose to stay for the occupation"

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Jacques Chouinard

Jacques Chouinard | Quebec, Quebec

"What's arrived, in fact, it's that communications we had were a little bit primary and the whole turned little in disaster because we were never able to communicate between the Colonel of the Regiment, General Bernachi, and myself"

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Hervé Couture

Hervé Couture | Quebec

"I was wounded... in Dunkerque, France - Then, I stayed 10 days at the hospital, and then, after 10 days, I have been transferred to the prison... I stayed there 219 days..."

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Jean Fontaine

Jean Fontaine | Quebec

"In other words, I hurry to had that on the RAF's base, near Cambridge, there were two squadrons: Mosquitoe Squadron and Lancasters, I was the only French speaker ont the base."

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Gaston Bélanger

Gaston Bélanger | Quebec

"... We cross again on the Mauritania to go back to Canada and we suffered the worst storm of the winter. I couldn't go on a cruise after that."

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