On an fall night in 1944 Joe Bobrovitz was trapped in a precarious position more than 6,000 kilometres away from his hometown of Brantford. A 19-year-old graduate of Brantford Collegiate Institute, Bobrovitz and another Canadian soldier were in a forward position fox hole during the Battle of the Scheldt, an estuary on the Scheldt River about 88 kilometres from the North Sea. “He almost died there,” Gary Bobrovitz, Joe’s son, said in an interview. “They were surrounded by German Panzer troops who launched a night assault and the Canadian high command called in an artillery strike at midnight to stop...
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