Re: Canadian Veterans?

Posted by BrianRM on November 11, 2005 at 17:53:59 from (216.8.135.215):

In Reply to: Canadian Veterans? posted by mjbrown on November 11, 2005 at 17:00:22:

I'm not but my dad was in the Canadian Navy from '41 - '45. He was has hit by shrapnel from Japanese plane but it was not real serious. He became an auto mechanic after the war and I can remember a lot of the old 8N, 9N and 2N torn down in his 2 bay shop over the years. He joined when he was 17 (to get off the farm I think) but never talked too much about the war. Looking back, these guys must have gone through shear hell. Once when they were in Australia, he said the U.S. boys and English lads would pull in the same port and on leave they would get into a scrap at the local bars. He said the U.S. Navy was always paid better and the Canadian and English were probably a bit jealous.....but always had great respect for both. He passed in 1990 at 66 and I sure wished I'd paid more attention when he was fixing those tractors.

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