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@_SarahLHart Congratulations!

@HmcsYellowknife There are multiple reels of footage in @thenfb archives that might also be of interest, then, from reel 13590 to 13596: archives.nfb.ca/stockshot/13592

Interesting footage, having just conducted a Q route as part of #TridentFury23 #MineWarfare #WeTheNavy

@248_Grey @mike_bechthold @CanWarMuseum No argument there, either. It definitely does have its uses.

I need some help! Can anyone identify the RCAF air vice-marshal in this photo? The photo shows Red Gravelle (left) and Ron Forbes (right) showing their RCAF Flyers Olympic Medal from 1948 to an officer identifed as Wilfred Curtis ... but that's not Curtis! TIA!

@normaegraham1 @mike_bechthold @CanWarMuseum Thank you! The hair certainly helped clinch the ID.

@awilsonsmith @mike_bechthold @CanWarMuseum Thank you! It was a fun bit of research.

@mike_bechthold @CanWarMuseum @jdn101 Great get !

@rcaf_foundation @mike_bechthold @CanWarMuseum Thanks! It really helped to be able to find a date for the original photograph, which then led to newspaper articles about the event. The ribbons for the CB and CBE that @papadelta23 mentioned also helped confirm the ID, as did the hair, ears, and moustache.

@mike_bechthold @CanWarMuseum @jdn101 That was impressive work @jdn101!

@OTDCanMilHis Did someone say riot? From the Hamilton Spectator, 11 May 1945, mentioning V-E Day-related riots in New Waterford, Sydney, and Liverpool, Nova Scotia, in addition to Halifax. Full article at collections.warmuseum.ca/warclip/object…

@mike_bechthold I'll suggest A/V/M A.L. Morfee, who is mentioned in newspaper accounts as representing Wilfred Curtis at a reception for the Flyers in Ottawa on 7 April 1948.

@OTDCanMilHis And of course WLMK mentions in his diary for 11 September: "A pleasant incident, this morning, was the friendliness of little Falla. He evidently smelt Pat on my trousers. He kept walking around wagging his tail, taking very close sniffs." central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=…

@OTDCanMilHis You're welcome! Another National Archives blog entry has the photo as well, and gives the date as 11 September 1944: prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2015/08/26/the…

D-Day in colour: Canadian & UK landing craft off what appears to be Bernières-sur-Mer. @thenfb archives, shot 13588, archives.nfb.ca/stockshot/1358…. Landing Craft Gun in the foreground, with Landing Craft Tank (Rocket) firing in distance. #DDay #RoyalNavy #RCNavy #Normandy #JunoBeach

HMCS CARAQUET & other ships of @RoyalCanNavy’s 31st Minesweeping Flotilla, around #DDay. Night of 5/6 June 1944 16 Canadian minesweepers helped clear approaches to Normandy beaches. @thenfb archives archives.nfb.ca/stockshot/1359… #Normandy #OperationNeptune #WW2 #WWII #SWW #Minewarfare

Lead-up to D-Day: GIF of colour footage of Canadian & UK landing craft, from @thenfb archives, shot ID 13582. Includes LCI(L) 299 from @RoyalCanNavy 2nd Canadian LCI Flotilla (@RoyalNavy Flotilla 262). archives.nfb.ca/stockshot/1358… #DDay #Normandy #WW2 #WWII #SWW #RCNavy #RoyalNavy

@OTDCanMilHis @Alan_Allport It also gave rise to one of a series of early-war Canadian jigsaw puzzles depicting "Canada at War" -- "Canadian Highlanders Escape from France," @canwarmuseum 20050114-001, warmuseum.ca/collections/ar…

Looking forward to presenting today about the history of this Soviet torpedo from the @canwarmuseum's collection -- as well as other Soviet naval weapons brought to Canada from North Korea via Japan in 1951 -- at the 33rd Canadian Military History Colloquium at @studyofcanada.

@PostWarHist @KristineAlexand @TarahBrookfield @isabelcampbell @McGillQueensUP Congratulations!! It’s a great cover.

Getting ready for the first day of the @NASOH_History conference, meeting aboard the ferry boat Berkeley, part of the collection of @sdmaritime. Definitely a distinctive conference venue!

A reminder of the upcoming deadline for submissions (Friday, 31 March) for this year's CRNS Conference in St. John's NL, August 17-18, 2023!

@Arn_Keeling @dr_cdeutsch Their 1980s albums include Red Sails in the Sunset (1984), which has "Who Can Stand in the Way" and some other possibilities, but it may have received less airplay outside of Australia than later albums like Diesel and Dust (which also offers some well-known possibilities).

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