Lance-Corporal Gordon A. Comeau, 7 Platoon, "C" Company, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, and Corporal Lewis G. Wiseman dug in as protection against German shellfire and mortar fire, Bergerfurth Wald, Germany, 24 March 1945.
1950 A North Star aircraft from the Experimental and Proving Establishment (No 412 Squadron), based in Rockcliffe, Ontario, completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight in a flying time of 125.2 hours