Sunday, June 22, 2014

Canadians honoured for WW II rescue of Italian boy

Second World War Canada Italy

In June of 1944, as the First Canadian Division advanced up the Italian peninsula, fighting pitched battles against a staunch German resistance, soldiers from the Royal Canadian Service Corps – a transport unit - discovered a small boy, hungry and filthy, cowering amid wreckage and rubble near the village of Torrice.






from CBC | Latest News News http://ift.tt/1uVgJkG

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