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Lieutenant-Colonel G. Fraser Eadie (left), Commanding Officer, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, talking with Major J. Simpson, Officer Commanding the regiment's "C" Company, Kolkhagen, Germany, 24 April 1945.
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Paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion who shaved the letters V-I-C-T-O-R-Y on their heads during their stay at a transit camp in England before parachuting into France. England, ca. 1-5 June 1944.
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Corporal Lewis G. Wiseman (left), 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, talking with a store owner and his family, Lermbeck, Germany, 29 March 1945.
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Paratroopers of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion preparing for a patrol, Bande, Belgium, 15 January 1945.
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An unidentified lieutenant of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Carter Barracks, Bulford, England, ca. May-June 1944.
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Lieutenants Joseph Philippe Rousseau (left) and Joseph Maurice Rousseau, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, at a transit camp near Down Ampney, England, 13 February 1944. Both officers were later killed in action, Philippe on 7 June 1944 and Maurice on 20 September 1944.\
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Unidentified paratrooper of "C" Company, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, England, 1944.
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Private J.C. Wrigglesworth of the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, servicing a break drum, Kolkhagen, Germany, 24 April 1945.
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