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D-Day: Why young men chose to go to war
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D-Day: Why young men chose to go to war
Description
June 6, 2024
While the military strategy of D-Day is well known 80 years later, there is far less discussion about why so many young men fought. As Dawna Friesen explains, the 14,000 Canadians who were part of the Normandy landings were all volunteers who chose to go to war.
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