The Royal Canadian Mint is creating two commemorative coins to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
Faces of the Second World War
Personnel of the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade carrying Lieutenant Harold Hanreck of the United States Army Air Corps on a stretcher after his aircraft crashed into the Adriatic Sea. San Vito di Ortona, Italy, 31 December 1943.
1950 A United Nations task force under Captain J.V. Brock, RCN, in HMCS Cayuga, and consisting of HMC Ships Athabaskan and Sioux, His Majesty's Australian Ships Warramunga and Bataan, the USS Forest Royal, covered the seaborne withdrawal of civilians and elements of the 8th Army (US) threatened by enemy advances in the Chinnampo area, Korea.