Venafro Airfield, Region of the Molise, South-Central Italy, April 1944: a large puddle on the pierced steel planking of the tarmac reflecting a Spitfire LFVIII, aircraft AN-U, s/n JF880, of Royal Canadian Air Force’s 417 Squadron, "City of Windsor". Victor Sierra

Canadian Spitfire in Italy

Sgt. (Pilot) Albert Stanley Prince
     - The First of the Ten Thousand Sgt. Prince was the first Canadian military casualty of the Second World War and the first of almost ten thousand Canadians to be killed while serving with Bomber Command.

The first of 10,000 Canadians to die in the air

Infantrymen of The Royal 22e Regiment training in a collapsible canvas boat near Cattolica, Italy, 24 November 1944. (L-R): Corporal Leo Payette, Privates M. Demers, Roger Dufour, Antoine Gagnon, Lucien Paliner, Lurent Breault, Felicien Cardin, Lance-Corporal Raoul Rudder