Corvette K-225 (1943)

Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks

The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.

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Workers notching a frame of a motor torpedo boat under construction at Canadian Power Boat Company, Montreal, Québec, Canada, 24 April 1941.

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1918 Corporal Joseph Kaeble of the 22nd Battalion, C.E.F. held back the advancing enemy, alone, with a Lewis machine gun at Neuville-Vitasse, France to earn the Victoria Cross. (Posthumous).

Today’s Honour Roll

W. J. Coutts, 1920
L. E. Allward, 1943
J. A. Inverarity, 1944
W. G. Saunders, 1916
G. W. Smith, 1917
L. Gold, 1944
W. S. Macdonald, 1917
H. A. Morrison, 1944
W. K. L. Morrison, 1944
J. W. Graham, 1944

These are 10 of the 463 Canadians who fell on this day in history.

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