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

Canadian armour deploys near Caen, Normandy, 1944.  Canadian forces in general, not least their armour, played a major part in the fighting in the northern part of the Normandy theatre, which facilitated the major Allied breakout towards the south.  Best regards, JR.

Canucks at Caen.

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