Warfare in Pictures Gallery

Situated in St. Juliaan village at Vancouver Corner, the Brooding Soldier memorial is a 35ft-high statue of a Canadian soldier with bowed heads and hands resting on arms reversed. The memorial was carved from a single shaft of granite
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Dates in History

WWII: Atomic Bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima, Japan

6th August 1945

Hiroshima was devastated when an atomic bomb ('little boy') is dropped by the US B29 'Enola Gay'.

Taken prisoner in Java, Terence Kelly's captivity was full of incident. He was witness to barbaric cruelty and suffering particularly on the journey packed into a filthy cargo ship under atrocious and inhumane conditions.

Once in Japan, he was a slave in the Hitachi shipyards where he… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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