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Albert Jarret

10 May 2020 Lars McKie 0

He was only 17 years old when he joined the RAF in 1942 on his home island of Jamaica. He left his home in 1943 crossing the Atlantic to join the armed forces of Britain. [Read more]

Mrs Madeline Shavalier née Fraser signed up with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps thinking she would be helping soldiers returning from battle overseas. Instead she shipped over to the UK treating patients close to [Read more]

Mrs Merle Taylor

23 January 2020 Lars McKie 0

Mrs. Merle Taylor served as a Wireless Operator Ground (WOG) instructor at No 4 SFTS Saskatoon. Her late husband, Fred Taylor, served as a Wireless Electric Mechanic and was stationed at No. 3 SFTS Calgary [Read more]

Louis Graziano

7 December 2019 Nick Devaux 2

The danger in researching hundreds of shared experiences is the risk of becoming desensitized over time. The sheer scale of WWII consumed/affected vast resources and countless lives. Thus by default – depending on the branch [Read more]

Bernice “Bee” Haydu née Falk

23 November 2019 Lars McKie 0

The women pilots of WASP amassed an incredible record through WWII. They flew 60 million miles; transported every type of military aircraft; towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun practice; simulated strafing missions and transported cargo. [Read more]

Nikolai Imchuk

20 October 2019 Lars McKie 0

As war broke out the 11 year old Nikolai Imchuk was at an orphanage in Uman, near Kiev, Ukraine, when it was bombed by the Luftwaffe. He joined the retreating Soviet troops but became trapped [Read more]

Nina Mikhailovna DANILKOVICH

20 October 2019 Lars McKie 0

Mrs Nina Mikhailovna Danilkovich is 12 years old when the Great Patriotic War started in June of 1941. She lives in the region of Brest in western Belarus that becomes occupied by German troops. Similar [Read more]

Sydney “Stevie” Stevens

12 October 2019 Lars McKie 0

SYDNEY “STEVIE” STEVENS – Fl. Lt., No. 57 Squadron RAF, Lancasters Sydney “Stevie” Stevens joined the RAF after his family’s home was bombed, parents surviving but everything he owned, down to a single pair of [Read more]

Mrs Gabriel “Bie” Verlinden

15 September 2019 Nick Devaux 0

The journey of the Log Book is completely circumstantial and coincidental. To whom and where it goes next has been fluid from day one. The first intended signatory was a Japanese pilot named Kename Harada [Read more]

Thomas Keneally

9 September 2019 Lars McKie 0

THOMAS KENEALLY – Civilian, author of “Schindler’s Ark” Almost 40 years ago, Thomos Keneally, intent on buying a briefcase, entered a leather goods store owned by a man named Poldek Pfefferberg. Pfefferberg, on learning that [Read more]