Bill Waiser is a historian and a two-time Governor-General’s Award winner. His father Ted, a member of the British Columbia Regiment, fought in France, Holland and Germany during the Second World War. It was only the “end of the beginning.” That was how British prime minister Winston Churchill described D-Day – the successful Allied landing on June 6, 1944, on France’s Normandy coast. It would still take several months of brutal fighting to defeat the Nazi war machine. Eighty years ago this week, though, definitively marked the start of something special: Canadian soldiers, their partners and their families being able...
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