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Skriven 2005-12-26 23:30:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MIKE ROSS
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-=> Quoting Mike Ross to Frank Scheidt <=-

 FS> True.  The Canadians fought the Nazis bravely.  Of course if it
 FS> hadn't been for the American Armed Forces Canada now would be a
 FS> German colony ...

 MR> It would have been a tough slug for the Nazi's since Canada had an
 MR> active army over 1 million strong during WWII. This was a larger
 MR> number per capita than even the USA. Other services were similarly
 MR> large. Today it's a different story no doubt but we make up for
 MR> quantity with technology just like the USA is trying to do of late.
 MR> Raw numbers don't always tell the whole story.

Regarding the Canadian armed forces during WWII.  Prior to Pearl 
Harbor, three of us teenaged friends drove to Montreal.  Unknown 
to two of us the third guy was determined to join the Royal 
Canadian Air Force.  The second morning we were in Montreal we 
missed him.  On a hunch we went to a RCAF recruiting office.  
There he was.  We literally dragged him out with no one trying to 
stop us.  Later we talked him into returning home with us.

Later he became a Navy fighter pilot in the South Pacific.

Literally dragging him out of that office was one of the most 
difficult things I've ever been involved in ... very mixed 
emotions.

... "He who blows at the foam in his beer is not thirsty." ÄÄ Talmud

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