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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