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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

- Thomas Edison

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Today in Military History

June 6

1813:

British defeat American army at Stoney Creek, Upper Canada

1944:

D-Day, Canadian casualties are described as "light"; 340 killed, 574 wounded, 47 captured

1944:

NORMANDY LANDING

1944:

NORTH-WEST EUROPE 194-45, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 5 May 45)

1944:

R.R.C. - based in Toronto. Served in England and France - parachuted in to France.

1945:

Lt. Andre van Kerre Broeck- de Sonneville Belgian Army/Resistance fighter/Dutch-French Connection walks back to Belgium barefoot after 3 years of Nazi incarceration

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