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"You just do what you were told and don’t ask any questions"

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"They hit the Wellington Barracks chapel right on and most of them were killed. I think the band was killed and, of course, if I hadn’t been disobedient, I would have been there."

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"Those aircraft with 12, either 12,000 or 16,000lb of bombs they were carrying; 2,154 gallons of high octane fuel. When they got hit, it was all over right now, you know. That's something, I guess, that you kept in the back of your mind."

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"We had some tough battles but nothing like Carpiquet. We had our first rest period after 39 days."

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"I went my own road, I didn’t follow the herd. And then I ran into the Americans. I stayed with the Americans to the end of the war."

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"The carnage, the wreckage, the stench, the dead bodies, human and animal: it was unreal."

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"Three days after D-Day, I became a prisoner of war. There was about eight of us got nailed."

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"I particularly remember the horror of the first pictures of the infamous Nazi Concentration Camp at Bergen-Belsen."

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"We had 3 units in our Commando of 28 men each. And we trained purposely for Operation Overlord."

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"Well, not bragging, but we were better cooks because we had the quality food. I said it was quality food made us better cooks."

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"And when he used the torch to try and burn off the hinges or whatever, it blew and blew him right clean out of the tank."

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"And to this day I’m thinking, those kids, and they were all kids, you know, are of one mind or the other mind, was, if anything comes around like this, this low, they’re going to blow them out of the sky with 50-caliber machine guns."

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"So we got out of there and arrived at Stalag III. Now, that was a real Sunday school compared with Buchenwald."

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"You just automatically went to your boat station to find out what was going to happen next, so then when the abandon ship order came through, well, we got into our lifeboat."

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"And then you got blasé about it. I used to stay in bed until a bomb dropped near and then of course, I’d shoot out like mad."

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"Then we started receiving the people from the concentration camps, and that was horrible. The army had to go in and rescue them because there must have been a camp near our hospital"

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"“Why should you go when you’re not even a Canadian?” So we all decided in our town hall meetings that the best way to do is to go and sign up and go and come back and lobby for the franchise. This is exactly what we did."

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Origène Poulin was a conscripted French-Canadian soldier who was sent to the Aleutian Islands with an American-Canadian expedition during the Second World War. After landing on the island of Kiska, he spent seven months facing extreme wind, snow, fog and rain. Listen as Poulin explains the conditions on Kiska and his training.

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"One time I drove for 36 hours without stopping. When I stopped it was just long enough to off-load and load. That was war. That’s what you trained for."

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"I think the young people should understand what our generation went through to give them their rights today. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Chinese, Japanese, Irish, they all went through discrimination here in Canada in those days."

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