2013 Sabretache

Butler, Quatre Bras
A British square at Waterloo. Detail from the painting, The 68th Regiment at Quatre Bras, by Lady Butler.

 

• January : “Form Square”: Infantry vs. cavalry

• February : USS Barb: How a submarine 'sank' a WWII Japanese train

• March : Fox Wellington Somerset: Patenting the Puttee; US M1 Helmet Fiber Liners

• April : 27th CIB: The Canadian Army’s first NATO commitment

• May : "Rose of York": 367th Bomb Squadron's 'Royal' WWII B-17

• June : No. 617 Squadron ― The Dambuster

• July : HMS Victory

• August : The story of the P-82 Twin Mustang

• September : Royal Canadian Navy Cap Tallies and Brassards

• October : HMS Rattler, the first British warship to adopt the screw propeller

• November : Tilly-sur-Seulles: The most moving of all the Allied memorials is the smallest

• December : Lt.-Col. Joan Kennedy, commander of WWII's Canadian Women's Army Corps

 

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2014 Sabretache

Detail from Battle of Belly River
Detail from the painting, The Battle of Belly River, by C.M. Russell.

 

• January : The Memorial Bar: Commemorating the sacrifice of Canada's military personnel

• February : The Battle of Belly River: Cree vs. Blackfoot near present-day Lethbridge AB, 25 Oct. 1870

• March : Heinz Stahlschmidt, the German sailor who refused to blow up Bordeaux

• April : Tannenberg Memorial: A monument to German pride

• May : Liberty Ships: ugly ducklings that helped win WWII

• June : The B-17 bomber that became a gas station

• July : "The White Mouse": Nancy Wake, legendary SOE agent in the French Resistance

• August : The Great Western Railroad Memorial at London’s Paddington Station

• September : Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment reprise Buckngham Palace guard duty

• October : Re-strike Canadian cap badges

• November : The Ship's Surgeon vs. Napoleon; Menin Gate Lions come to Canada

• December :  The Naval General Service Medal and Copenhagen 1801 Bar

 

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2015 Sabretache

Wait for me Daddy
Detail from Wait for me, Daddy, photographed in New Westminster BC 1 Oct. 1940, by Claude P. Dettloff.

 

• January : “Wait For Me, Daddy”: Claude P. Dettloff's iconic 1940 photo

• February : The RCAF's aerial acrobats: 1959-1969

• March : The amazing Dr. Campbell Mellis Douglas: From India to the North West Rebellion

• April : Official praise for Canadian troops after the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 22 April 1915

• May : The Battle of Loon Lake (Steele Narrows Battle), 3 June 1885

• June : The King's German Legion and the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815

• July : The Polar Medal: Recognizing extraordinary service in Canada’s North

• August : Corporal Wojtek, the bear that fought in WWII

• September : Some interesting facts about the Duke of Wellington

• October : Places to see on your trip to England

• November : Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arc de Triomphe

• December :  The Trainbusters Club: American and Canadian navies vs. WWII and Korean War railways

 

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2016 Sabretache

HL Hunley
Confederate submarine HL Hunley. Detail from a painting by Conrad Wise Chapman.

 

• January : "Kilroy was here"

• February : German U-boats sunk or damaged by the RCAF in WWII

• March : The Battle of the St. Laurence: U-boats in Canada's waterways

• April : The Fighting Ballendine Family: Metis snipers in the CEF

• May : The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946

• June : The Wehrmacht-Einheitskanister, also known as the Jerrycan

• July : 7:28 am 1 July 1916: The Battle of the Somme begins

• August : The Confederate submarine HL Hunley: Trying to break the Charleston blockade

• September : The railway men of WWI

• October : Lieutenant Commander David Balme and the capture of Germany's Enigma Machine

• November : "Zone Rouge": France's forbidden no man’s land poisoned by war

• December : The USS Arizona: December 7th, 1941, the day the world changed

 

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2017 Sabretache

London firefighters
Fire fighters during the London Blitz

 

• January : Canada's Military Dentists

• February : "Firemen go to war": The Story of the Canadian Overseas Fire Fighters in WWII

• March : Oglala Sioux Chief Xunka Kuciyedan's (Low Dog's) account of the battle of the Little Big Horn

• April : The CEF's 10th Field Ambulance

• May : U.S. Air Corps' William Overstreet Jr., famous flight beneath the Eiffel Tower in 1944

• June : What if? Gatling guns at the Little Big Horn

• July : The Columbian Army in the Korean War

• August : Pte. Leon Ayles: A CEF Casualty's Long Journey Home

• September : Lady Fanny Lucy Houston, the British philanthropist whose money built the Spitfire and Hurricane

• October : Albert Woolson, the Last Civil War Soldier

• November : RAF's Reginald Nutter comes to Canada

• December : "The Night Witches": Russia's WWII women bomber pilots

 

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