Infantrymen of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles in a Buffalo amphibious vehicle taking part in Operation VERITABLE en route from Niel to Keeken, Germany. February 9, 1945.

Winnipeg Rifles - Germany

Charley Fox - Spitfire pilot credited with wounding Rommel in Normandy, dies aged 88

[October 20 2008]

The Canadian Spitfire pilot credited with seriously wounding German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in a strafing attack in the critical weeks after D-Day has died. Charley Fox was 88. The much decorated flyer from London, Ontario, was killed in a weekend automobile crash near Tillsonburg, Ont. It took years before Fox was cited for the attack on Rommel as there were counterclaims by the Americans that one of their aircraft was responsible, and a South African pilot is also thought to have carried out the attack.


Charley Fox came home from world war two with a distinguished air combat record, flying 222 operational missions and earning two Distinguished Flying Crosses.


Charley Fox - Wounded Rommel

nfantrymen of the Regina Rifle Regiment, Zyfflich, Germany, 9 February 1945.