To see the pictures, CLICK HERE: The Flying Legends of Victory Tour made a stop at the Gatineau Executive Airport this weekend in conjunction with Vintage Wings of Canada. The tour is part of the Commemorative Air Force – Arizona Wing, based in Mesa, Arizona, which has a similar mission to Vintage Wings in that…
To see all the pictures from the ceremony, CLICK HERE: In the Lebreton Gallery of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, amid the tanks and other implements of war, history was made with the appointment of General Jennie Carignan as the first woman Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) for Canada on July 18th, 2024. In…
If you were downtown Ottawa or around Petrie Island on Wednesday afternoon, you may have thought Ottawa was the target of an airborne invasion. Not true however. What was happening is that the RCAF was doing a practice run of the Canada Day Flypast on Parliament Hill. To see pictures of the take-offs and landings…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: For 35 years Korea had been a Japanese colony and had suffered at the hands of the Japanese all that time and especially during WWII. After WWII, a line was drawn at the 38th parallel making two occupation zones: the North controlled by Russia and…
On April 1st, 1924, the air elements of the Canadian military became the Royal Canadian Air Force reporting to the Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia (Army) at the time. It wouldn’t be until 1930 that the RCAF would become a fully independent element and report directly to the Minister…
To see all the pictures from this event, CLICK HERE: When one mentions “D-Day”, no further explanation is required as the day and its meaning is ubiquitous and requires no explanation. Everyone knows that on June 6th, 1944, the Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, opening up the second front of the war…
On the 8th of May, 1945, the surrender of the German Army came into effect and the European theatre of war was finished after six long years. Ukraine has taken that date to be their date of Remembrance of all the people who died, either by war, atrocities, executions, the Holocaust, bombings, and bloody battles…
Today the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands remembered those Dutch who have fallen in wars at a Remembrance Day ceremony held at the National Military Cemetery in Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. The day was forecast for rain but it turned out to be a sunny day with a light breeze and a temperature…
To see all the pictures from the 109th ANZAC Day ceremony, CLICK HERE: On 25th April, 1916, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZACs) stormed the beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula to try and take the Dardenelles Strait from the Ottoman forces (now Turkey). It was an eight month long battle which, after the…
Today (23rd April, 2024) the Korean Embassy and the Korean Veterans Association, Chapter #7, held a ceremony to remember the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Kapyong in Korea on April 23-25, 1951. The battle was pivotal in that it allowed the retreating South Korean forces to orderly move through the Kapyong Valley and it…