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D-Day
memories Daniel Palmer News staff
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Sally Walker recalls the rumble of thousands of aircraft flying over her radar station somewhere along the Dorset coastline on June 6, 1944. Walker and her fellow Royal Air Force technicians stepped outside to watch, unaware they were witnessing the beginning of the largest seaborne invasion in history. “I remember seeing the two big Hengist and Horsa aeroplanes, these enormous (partially) wooden gliders built to take the airborne troops. They were so impressive,” she says from her Fairfield home. Today marks the 70th anniversary of Operation Overlord, or D-Day, when more than 156,000 Allied troops – including 14,000 Canadians – stormed the beaches of Normandy and changed the course of the Second World War. Canada’s troops were charged with taking taking Juno beach, one of five key beaches heavily defended by the Germans along France’s coastline. Amongst the 50 Canadian naval destroyers was HMCS Gatineau, a former Royal Navy ship transferred to Canada in the run-up to D-Day. Gatineau sustained some damage during the invasion but still made it back to English ports,
‘Pawns’ protest
Students picket outside Victoria High school on Fernwood Road to protest a lack of progress made in labour negotiations between the B.C. Ministry of Education and teachers’ union on Wednesday. With only weeks to go before the end of the school year, signs like “We are not pawns” and “Education is not a game” express the frustration felt by many students across B.C. where 18-year-old Winnipeg native Leslie Saul joined its ranks. “We headed over to northern Scotland, then back to Ireland and then the English Channel, where we were patrolling and protecting merchant ships,” said Victoria resident Saul, now 89. After the war ended, Saul
learned Gatineau had sailed through the Panama canal to Victoria, where she was dismantled at Capital Iron’s shipyard in the Inner Harbour in 1956. The hull was then barged upIsland to Royston and sunk to create a breakwater for a lumber operation. The breakwater
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remains visible today. “I went to see (Gatineau’s hull) after I was married,” Saul said. “You get very attached to your ship as a sailor. It’s your home and your shipmates are there. So it was very sad to see her sunk there.”
D-Day event n Veterans, active forces and cadets in uniform receive free admission to IMAX Victoria’s D-Day: Normandy 1944 screenings at 10 a.m., 1, 3, 5 and 7 p.m. all day Friday.
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