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Canadian Forestry Corps, First Canadian Army, North West Europe, 1944-1945

Canadian Forestry Corps No. 1 Canadian Forestry Group (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3396286) Personnel of No. 16 Company, Canadian Forestry Corps, cutting timber, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, 6 November 1944. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3199721) Canadian Forestry Corps soldiers, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, 4 November 1944. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3519962) … Read more

Canadian Armour: M4A4 Sherman Medium Tanks and Duplex Drive (DD) Tanks preserved overseas

Canadian M4A4 Sherman Medium Tank and Duplex Drive (DD) Tanks preserved overseas (Joost J. Bakker Photo) M4A4 Sherman Medium Tank, 51, 30, “Argyle“, LdSH (RC), Airborne Museum, Arnhem, Netherlands. The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by Canada and its Western Allies during the Second World War.  The … Read more

Canadian Military Bicycles and Cyclists

Canadian soldiers and their bicycles (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3405894) 2nd Battalion Cyclists, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in the Scottish Lines near Poperinghe, not far from Ypres. This photo was taken by an Official War Photographer while the 2nd Battalion was out in Rest Billets after fighting at Sanctuary Woods, Maple Copse, June … Read more

Canadian Armour: Canadian Military Engineers Museum, 5 Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, New Brunswick

Armoured Vehicles located with the Canadian Military Engineer Museum, Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering, 5 CDSB Gagetown The Canadian Military Engineers Museum first opened at CFB Chilliwack on 11 May 1957. The Museum moved to its present site, within the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineers, located within the Mitchell Building at 5 CDSB Gagetown … Read more

Canadian Military Freefall Parachutists (MFP) 1977-1981

Canadian Military Freefall Parachutists Ever have one of those days when you really miss going to work?  These are photos I took with a wrist-mounted camera of Military Freefall Parachutists (MFP) exiting the ramp of a Canadian Forces Lockheed CC-130 Hercules over Edmonton, ca 1978. Two MFP jumpers got their rucksacks momentarily hooked together – … Read more

Canadian Military Intelligence History: 1901 to 1939, Corps of Guides, Canadian Cyclist Corps

Canadian Intelligence Corps (C Int C), History and Insignia Intelligence Operators and Officers provide military intelligence support in operations, planning and decision-making.  Their work has an impact on military and national security, and the political and public relations of the government. The early history of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch has been well-documented in Major … Read more

Canadian Military Intelligence History: 1939 to 1945, Canadian Intelligence Corps

‍1939-1946,Canadian Defence Intelligence Effort Extracts from a paper by BGen James S. Cox (Ret’d). ‍Introduction.  Canada’s Second World War history is built on the magnificent exploits of our soldiers, sailors and airmen. It is an engaging read.  However, among the less well-known and rarely discussed activities are those of Canada’s wartime defence intelligence programme. What … Read more

Royal Canadian Air Force Intelligence Operations during the Second World War

RCAF Intelligence Operations during the Second War (RCAF Photo) RCAF bomber crew receiving a briefing, and later being debriefed by the Squadron Intelligence Officer. As of 23 May 1940, Squadron Leader R.L. Logan, a First World War pilot who spent the last years of that war in a German prison camp, was at work as the … Read more

Royal Canadian Navy Intelligence during the Second World War

Royal Canadian Navy, Intelligence during the Second World War (Author Photo) HMCS Assiniboine ramming U-210, 6 Aug 1942, painting by Tom Forrestal, in the Wardroom, CFB Halifax, Nova Scotia. Naval Intelligence began to grow as an entity in Canada after the Royal Navy was charged with leading intelligence operations in Halifax during the First World … Read more