Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

The day of parachute troops is over

- Adolf Hitler, after the heavy losses suffered by the airborne units on Crete in 1941

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Military Word Of The Day

CSSS

Canadian Space Surveillance System

Today in Military History

July 5

1900:

VC won by Sgt Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Strathcona's Horse, Wolve Spruit, Standerton

1943:

Germans launch Operation Zitadelle to eliminate the Kursk salient

1945:

Philippines declared liberated

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